This anthology on languages and standards was designed to serve two main purposes: (1) to provide an academic forum for linguistic scholars and language educators within and outside the region of Southeast Asia whose contributions would add substantially to an understanding of this important subject; and (2) to make relevant aspects of current knowledge and understanding available to language planners and practitioners in Southeast Asia. The seventeen papers included in this volume, the fourth in this series, bring together various viewpoints and several major schools of thought, and raise a number of issues for both policy planning and language education. Section titles are as follows: (1) "Issues in Theory and Pedagogy"; (2) "Issues in Implementation"; and (3) "English in the World: Issues and Atittudes." (JL)