Nine papers read and discussed at the Skytop, Pennsylvania, Colloquium are presented along with discussion summaries by Theodore Andersson. Opening the colloquium with a paper on the importance of language style in education, Moses Hadas urges the cooperation of teachers of modern foreign languages and of classical languages in order to achieve basic educational goals. Stephen Freeman discusses the importance of modern language education in a changing world. The contributions of linguistics to language teaching are described by Albert Marckwardt. Psycholinguistics and psychological approaches to second-language learning are covered by Wallace Lambert. The objectives of modern language teaching which contribute to successful cross-cultural understanding and communication are reviewed by Howard Nostrand. Joseph Hutchinson stresses the need to define learning objectives in his paper on technology. Program articulation is explored by Donald Walsh. Teacher recruitment, and certification procedures are examined by Kenneth Mildenberger. A list of suggested readings is furnished. (RL)