Synergy is an open-access journal which invites theoretical or practical contributions from anyone who is involved in foreign language education and research and in various related disciplines; from anyone who, in addition to their distinct professional and academic concerns - share a fundamental commitment to human communication and to the enlightenment of the mind. Its concept springs from the conviction that there is a strong synergy between diverse academic ventures and that these separate threads can be brought together between the covers of a single publication, to interweave to form a wider and more complex pattern that will benefit all its readers.