Articles contained in this special issue on language usage in Hong Kong, particularly in the context of elementary and secondary education, include: "A Comparison of English Errors Made by Hong Kong Students and Those Made by Non-Native Learners of English Internationally" (David Bunton); "Errors in Guides to English Usage for Hong Kong Students" (Mark Newbrook); "Further Notes on the Influence of Cantonese on the English of Hong Kong Students" (Michael Webster, William Lam Ching-Po); "A Study of Errors Made by F6 Students in Their Written English with Special Reference to Structures Involving the Transitive Verb and the Passive Construction" (Barbara Chan); "Typological Transfer: A Factor in the Learner Language of Hong Kong Students?" (Sung Wai Mui, Dilys); "Teachers, Text-books, and Errors" (Henry Hepburn); and "Teacher Perceptions of the Relative Gravity of Errors in Written English" (Christopher F. Green). (MSE)