The following papers relevant to second language instruction are compiled here: (1) "The Three Most Critical Issues in Foreign-Language Education Today," by Lorraine A. Strasheim; (2) "A Bird's Eye View of Bilingualism in Canada," by Chavarche Tchalekian; (3) "'...To Educate the Multi-Faceted and Harmoniously Developed Socialist Personality...': The Educational System of the German Democratic Republic," by Michael J. Ziemann; (4) "Orthographic Strategies of a Selected Sample of Students of English as a Second Language," by Margaretta B. Warbey and Joseph F. Kess; (5) "The Effect of First Language Learning on Second Foreign Language Learning: Another Argument for Language Study in American Education," by Peter A. Eddy and Elissa Natelson Allen; (6) "A Rationale for Videodisc-Assisted Foreign Language Learning," by Wendell H. Hall; (7) "Cognates and False Friends," by Horst Martin; (8) "Oral Proficiency Testing in High School and College: Why and How?" by Claus Reschke; and (9) "The Undergraduate Foreign Language Curriculum: Suggestions for a Change," by R. Vance Savage. (JB)