Papers include: (1) "Language Acquisitional Universals: L1, L2, Pidgins, and FLT" (Henning Wode); (2) "Language Acquisition, Language Learning and the School Curriculum" (Norman F. Davies); (3) "Language Teaching and Acquisition of Communication" (Kari Sajavaara, Jaakko Lehtonen); (4) "On the Distinction between Second-Language Acquisition and Foreign-Language Learning" (Hakan Ringbom); (5) "Defensive Speech Acts, or, Can We Use Speech Acts in Language Education" (Jacob Mey); (6) "Some Parameters of Simplification" (Jorma Tommola); (7) "The Most Functional English for a Finnish Five-Year-Old" (Pirjo Linnakyla); (8) "Aspects of the Teaching and Learning of Communicative Competence in French" (Inge Bartning); (9) "Prediction and Reflection in Reading in a Foreign Language" (Donald Adamson); (10) "Lexical Semantics and Its Application to Second and Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning and Teaching" (Kay Wikberg); (11) "De langsiktiga effekterna pa allmanna sprakfardigheter och attityder i skolan av tidigt paborjad undervisning i engelska" (Lars Holmstrand); (12) "Return to the Native Language via TREX" (Stina Borgstam); (13) "Survey of Foreigners' Pronunciation Problems in Swedish" (Robert Bannert); and (14) "The Learners' Native Language and Culture in Teaching English to Immigrants in Australia" (Peija Ilpola). (MSE)