Thirty-five articles on teaching English as a second language are presented under the following headings: (1) "Trends and Practices," (2) "The Matter of Errors," (3) "Second Language Acquisition," (4) "Speaking and Understanding," (5) "Reading and Writing," (6) "Vocabulary," (7) "Testing," and (8) "The Matter of Culture." Authors include Clifford H. Prator, Bernard Spolsky, James J. Kohn, H. H. Stern, Sandra McKay, S. N. Sridhar, Jacquelyn Schachter, Marianne Celce-Murcia, Larry Selinker, John T. Lamendella, Barry P. Taylor, James M. Hendrickson, Judith Chun, Ellen Bialystok, Stephen D. Krashen, John H. Schumann, Charles Parish, Wilga M. Rivers, Julia Dobson, Christina Bratt Paulston, David M. Davidson, Donald Knapp, Betty Wallace Robinett, Barry P. Taylor, Ann Raimes, Robert B. Kaplan, Jack C. Richards, Freeman Twaddell, Peter Strevens, John Oller, Sydney Sako, Kenneth D. Chastain, John B. Carroll, Beverly McLeod, Gregory J. Trifonovitch, Harvey M. Taylor, and Kenneth Croft. (JB)