Information on current trends and issues in English instruction, compiled by directors of the following National Council of Teachers of English groups, is presented in this report: Commission on Composition (Charles I. Schuster); Commission on Curriculum (Eileen Lundy); Commission on the English Language (James C. Stalker); Commission on Media (David England); Commission on Reading (Dorothy J. Watson); Commission on Literature (Gladys Veidemanis); and Standing Committee against Censorship (John M. Kean). Some of the topics discussed include journal writing, test development and administration, teacher evaluation, class size, computer uses in education, language variation, bilingual education, phonics, state adoption of textbooks, preservice preparation programs for elementary language arts teachers, mass media in the English curriculum, basal readers, teacher empowerment, censorship, and the separation of teachers of literature from teachers of writing. (SRT)