3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies – Vol 18(4): 1 – 4 1 A Kaleidoscopic Look into New and Trusted Ways of Teaching and Learning Language, Linguistics and Literature RADHA M.K.NAMBIAR School of Language Studies and Linguistics Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia rads@ukm.my 2012 has been a monumental year for 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies as the journal has had many firsts this year. For a start, we are now a quarterly journal with issues in March, June, September and December. We began with one issue in 1992 then moved to two issues in 2010, a good eighteen years later, and in 2012 we embarked on four issues. From a mere twelve odd articles per year we are now publishing about fifty odd articles today and this is indeed phenomenal. 2012 also marks the twentieth year of the journal. We have had an illustrious twenty years, publishing articles in the fields of language studies, linguistics and literature. In these twenty years the journal has maintained its quality and publishing standards and the number of submissions which has increased tenfold over the last few years is testament to its academic standing. 2012 is an auspicious year as it marks the migration of the journal to an online submission system. We are indeed pleased to have made this transition fairly quickly and with minimal complications with the support of a great editorial team and the backing of UKM Press and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Henceforth, all submissions and reviews will be done on this online system. While authors, reviewers and readers have to register to access the system, the journal remains an open access journal and all articles can be accessed by anyone who is registered with the system. Volume 18 (4), the last issue for this year, carries 18 articles and 1 book review. As usual we have put together an interesting blend of papers on research in language, linguistics and literature from Malaysia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Turkey, India, and Iran. Budsaba Kanoksilapatham’s Facilitating Scholarly Publication:Genre Characteristics of English Research Article Introductions and Methods provides an insightful view of the rhetorical structure and linguistic features of research articles in biomedical engineering and is a welcome contribution to the field of genre analysis. This interesting article serves to develop genre competence for scholars by enhancing the writing of research articles to help foreground the scholarship of developing countries, especially in the Southeast Asian context. Knowledge of rhetorical structure and linguistic features of biomedical engineering articles will provide the much needed information for novice writers to help them get published in scholarly journals. In Revisionings of Hamlet: The Crux of an Interpretive Paradigm, Mohammad Safaei & Ruzy Suliza Hashim introduce four types of revisioning of Hamlet and argue that these can be attributed to a psychological reaction to Shakespeare and the socio-political context of the time. Using an interpretive paradigm, they claim, can provide better insights into the revisioning phenomenon in this century. What is important is we understand any revisioning of Hamlet is a transformation of and a response to a particular way of reading the play. Songyut Akkakoson revisits the field of strategic awareness and examines the Thai situation where tertiary students need to be able to access knowledge in science and