This compilation of selected articles from the "TESOL Newsletter" is devoted to various practical aspects of teaching English as a second language. The following articles are included: "In a Word...,""The Functional Approach to Language Teaching,""A Challenge to Traditional Teaching of Reading: A Thirty Year-Old Methodology Repudiated,""Tak (Th)em Aut to th Old Bol Gam...,""Know Your Korean Students,""The Modular Learning Lab: An Experiment in Individualization,""Teaching ESL in an Outside Location (or Things They Don't Tell You in Grad School),""Reviving the Language Lab,""Sector Analysis and Working Sentences,""Toward Interactive Modes in Guided Writing,""Chemistry and Agentless Passive Sentences: An ESL-EST Exercise,""Anaphora and Cataphora: Strong Medicine for Some Students,""The Korean Language,""Writing from an Experimental Base,""Memo Writing and Silence in the ESL Composition Class,""It Works: An Experiment in Controlled Creativity,""Strip Stories,""Psychodrama in the Classroom: An Experiment,""The Pocket Calculator and Listening Comprehension,""Scripted Dialogues,""It Works: Use Your Imagination,""Let's Strip,""It Works: Time Out for Classroom Ideas at TESOL 77,""Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills,""Production and Explanation," and "Crazy TOEFL." (JB)