This document consists of the two issues of "Dialog on Language Instruction" (DLI) published during 1987. The following articles appear in these issues of this "occasional" internal publication: "Foreign Language Technology in the 21st Century" (Frank Otto); "Cultural Distance and the Foreign Language Teaching/Learning Process" (Mehmet A. Cicekdag); "Communicating with More Than Words" (Yildiray Erdener); "Goals and Objectives in Foreign Language Teaching" (Lidia Woytak); "Research at DLI" (John Lett); "Social Conventions in the Foreign Language Classroom" (Foazi Y. El-Barouki and others); "Avoiding Fossilization in Communicative Approaches" (Tracy David Terrell); "Teaching Reading in the Foreign Language Classroom" (Heidi Byrnes); an interview with Robert M. Gagne (Lidia Woytak); "Teaching without Texts" (Rene de Barros); and "Trivial Pursuit as a Language-Learning Game" (William M. Bueler). Conference summaries, program reports and announcements, book reviews, and professional notes are also included. (MSE)