This volume presents in-depth studies on leading themes in education policy and intercultural
communication in contemporary Asia covering empirical as well as theoretical approaches and
offering both an in-depth investigation of their implications and a synthesis of areas where
these topics cohere and point to advances in description analysis and theory policy and
applications. The studies address key questions that are essential to the future of education
in an Asia where intercultural communication is ever more important with the rise of the ASEAN
Economic Community and other international initiatives. These questions include the properties
of the increasing globalisation of communication and how it plays out in Asia especially but
not exclusively with reference to English and how we can place intercultural communication in
this context as well as studies that highlight intercultural communication and its underlying
value systems and ideologies in Asia.