Volume 18, Number 1 – May 2014 A Word from the Editors… (pdf) ARTICLES Editor: Maggie Sokolik Feature Articles Shogo Sakurai, Corrective Feedback and Student Uptakes in English Immersion Classrooms in Japan: Is the Counter-Balance Hypothesis Valid?; (pdf) Budsaba Kanoksilapatham, Thai Elementary School Teachers’ English Pronunciation and Effects of Teacher Variables: Professional Development; (pdf) Enas Abdullah Rajab Hammad, Palestinian EFL Teachers’ Attitudes Towards English Textbooks Used at the First Three Grades of Elementary School; (pdf) Kay Hong-Nam, ELL High School Students’ Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategy Use and Reading Proficiency; (pdf) ON THE INTERNET Editor: Vance Stevens James Buckingham, Open Digital Badges for the Uninitiated, (pdf) REVIEWS Media Articles & Reviews Editors: Thomas Delaney & Sarah Huffman Herri Mulyono, Creating native-like but comprehensible listening texts for EFL learners using NaturalReader, (pdf) Randall Davis, Sock Puppets Complete, (pdf) Books Editors: Spencer Salas & Okim Kang Classroom Texts Judith Tanka & Paul Most (2014), Interactions 1: Listening/speaking, 6th edition; Reviewed by Christopher Garth, (pdf) Fiona Aish & Jo Tomlinson (2013), Lectures; Reviewed by Erin Schnur, (pdf) Resources & Teacher Education Ken Hyland & Lillian Wong (2013), Innovation and Change in English Language Education; Reviewed by Erin N. O’Reilly, (pdf)