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CULTURE INTERACTION AND LEARNING 1. Not to waste words or students:Confucian and Socratic discourse in classroom interactions; 2. Secondculture acquisition: Cognitive considerations; 3. Developing non-nativespeaker skills in interpreting coversational implicature in English:Explicit teaching can ease the process; CULTURE AND SECOND LANGUAGEWRITING 4. Culture, context, and writing; 5. Objectivity andcredibility in second language writing 6. Representing culture in theESL writing classroom; CULTURE AND SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS7. A prosaics of interaction: The development of interactionalcompetence in another language; 8. Some issues in the teaching ofpragmatic competence; 9. Teachers and students learning about requests10. Cultural codes for calls: The use of commercial television inteaching culture in the classroom 11. Cultural mirrors: Materials andmethods in the EFL classroom.