Presentations at this seminar on distance education focused on the different types of speech in multimedia presentations which contribute to the elaboration (simulated or substituted) of a situation involving different relationships. In addition to opening and closing remarks by Marcel de Greve and a final report by the Scientific Committee of DIMED 86, 24 papers are presented: (1) "Recit Litteraire et Recit Televisuel: Une Concurrence Loyale" (Claude de Greve); (2) "Fiction Audio-Visuelle et Enseignement a Distance" (Luis de Pina); (3) "La Classe de Suggestopedie et les Comportements Non Verbaux des Ensignants" (Maria Clara Ferrao Tavares); (4) "Caractere Conversationnel du Medium Ecrit dans l'Enseignement a Distance" (Alice Gouveia and Edite Ferreira); (5) "La Contraction du Temps" (Rocha Trindade); (6) "Un Laboratoire de Langue des Annees 80" (Arnout Horemans); (7) "Lecture Semiotique d'un Cours Universitaire Televise: Diversite et Complementarite Discursives des Medias en Situation d'Enseignement a Distance" (Renee Legris); (8) "Videogramme Didactique et Operation d'Intellection" (Monique Mahieu); (9) "La Simulation: Un Outil a Integrer dans l'Enseignement" (Louise Sauve); (10) "Des Perceptions Oubliees" (Maria Emilia Ricardo Marques); (11) "Contribution a l'Elaboration d'un Modele de Perception du Discours" (Dulce Rebelo); (12) "Antenne Ouverte: Animation, Imaginaire et Creativite" (Vasco Granja); (13) "Language Teaching by Video: Spontaneous Language at Beginners' Level. Presentation of a Technique for Indirect Elicitation of Language" (Eva dam Jensen); (14) "How Not to Drown the Baby in the Bathwater" (Ashok Kelkar); (15) "Les Materiels Educatifs: Masques d'un Reel Imaginaire (Gabriel La Rocque); (16) "Argumentation et Persuasion" (Max Egly); (17) "Les Systemes Audio-Visuels Interactifs" (Maria Clara Nunes); (18) "Pour un Poetique des Media" Melo e Castro); (19) "Notice Pedagogique--Documents d'Appui" (Paul Lavaud); (20) "Logo: Langage et Philosophie, Role dans le Processus de l'Enseignement-Apprentissage (Candida Moreira); (21) "L'Image au Service de l'Enseignement" (Olga Grabovsky); (22) "A l'Ecoute du Journal Radio. Etude teleologique" (Stanislaw Jakobczyk); (23) "Applied Linguistic Methods for Teaching Sino-Tibetan Boro Mishing, etc., to Non-Speakers" (Pramod Bhattacharya); and (24) "Biocybernetic Approach to the Media Speech in Programmed Teaching" (M. F. Malik). Abstracts of each presentation are provided. (EW)