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Dear SLART,

I have been watching the Shao-Lin debate from afar as I do not,
unfortunately, have the time to participate in it. However, I cannot allow
the following remark to go unanswered:

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Ronald Sheen wrote:
> I think the problem is not that of discussing an article of a fellow member,
> as John suggests, but that of discussing an article that has not appeared in
> a refereed journal.  It happened with Peter Robinson's Sate of the Art paper
> and has happened again with the Lians'.  There is simply so much in such
> articles that would not see the light of day in journals with a blind review
> process.

A careful reading of the paper as published on the Web would have revealed
that the paper was actually published in a refereed journal of the same
status as Re-CALL and similar journals of good repute. While it is true
that I am a member of the editorial board of On-CALL, this paper, like all
academic papers published in On-CALL, was submitted to a blind review
process and changes were made as a result of feedback. The following lines
appear immediately under the title and just before the introduction:

"This article has been published in ON-CALL, May 1997, Centre for Language
Teaching and Research, University of Queensland, pp. 2-19. If quoted,
reference should be made to the fact that it was published in ON-CALL. The
authors gratefully acknowledge permission given by ON-CALL to publish the
article electronically."

Next time, I suggest a more careful reading of the paper.
Andrew Lian

Professor Andrew Lian
Head, School of Languages and International Education
Professor of Languages and Second Language Education
Division of Communication and Education
University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
International phone: +61 2 6201 5010, e-mail: Andrew.Lian@canberra.edu.au
International fax:   +61 2 6201 5089
http://education.canberra.edu.au/~andrewl/mlapl