The communication difficulties of foreign teaching assistants (TA) in U.S. colleges are addressed in 11 articles, with attention to the problems of the TA system as a whole in the spirit of international educational exchange. Titles and authors include the following: "'The Foreign TA Problem'" (Kathleen M. Bailey); 'Toward an Anthropology of the Classroom: An Essay on Foreign Teaching Assistants and U.S. Students" (Frank Pialorsi); "Linguistic Competence, Communicative Needs, and University Pedagogy: Toward a Framework for TA Training" (Peter A. Shaw, Elena M. Garate); "A Survey of Training Programs for Foreign Teaching Assistants in American Universities" (Nina J. Turitz); "A One-Day Workshop in Oral Communication Skills" (Kathleen M. Bailey, Frances B. Hinofotis); "A One-Week Language Skills Orientation Program for Foreign Teaching Assistants and Graduate Students" (William Gaskill, Donna Brinton); "A One-Semester Program for Orienting the New Foreign Teaching Assistant" (Donna Steed Rice); "Problems and Strategies: An Extended Training Program for Foreign Teaching Assistants" (Jean Zukowski/Faust); "An Evaluation of a Training Course for Foreign Teaching Assistants" (Mark Landa, William Perry); "Two Instruments for Assessing the Oral English Proficiency of Foreign Teaching Assistants" (Charles W. Stanfield, Rodney J. Ballard); and "A Typology of Teaching Assistants" (K. Bailey). (SW)