This compilation of four issues of the Japan Association of Language Teachers Journal (JALT) covers the years 1982-1984. The four issues contain a total of 21 articles, as follows: "Communicative Needs in Foreign Language Learning" (Jack C. Richards); "Language Proficiency Interview Testing" (David J. Keitges); "Speculations into the Distributive Function of Consonants and Vowels in English and Japanese" (Mamoru Kinjo); "Impromptu Speaking as a Tool To Improve Non-native Speakers' Fluency in English" (Don Henderson); "Improving Reading Speed in Readers of English as a Second Language" (Wesley Richard); "The Effects of Direct and Heuristic Correction on First Year Level College Composition" (Steven Ross). "Rhetorical Patterns Extant in the English Compositions of Japanese Students" (Machiko Achiba, Yasuaki Kuromiya); "The Enigma of Reading Comprehension" (Yeghia Aslanian); "Time and Space With Community Language Learning" (Paul G. La Foreg); "Macro-Analysis: A Technique for Helping Japanese Students of English To Cope with the Culture Barrier" (Kathryn T. Mizuno); "Sentence Combining and the Teaching of Writing in the ESL/FL Classroom: Theory, Research, and Practice" (Ian Shortreed, Curtis Hart Kelly); "Typical Errors in English Made by Japanese ESL Students" (William H. Bryant); "The Nelson-Denny Reading Test: Fair Measure for Non-native Speakers" (Mary Heise); "A Comparative Analysis of the Invitational Speeches at Baden-Baden by Nagoya and Seoul for the 1988 International Olympics: A Case Study in International Discourse" (Teruyuki Kume); "Measuring Writing Proficiency of College ESL Students" (Ho-Peng Lim); "Sign Language in ESOL" (Masayo Yamamoto); "Training ESOL Teachers: The Need for Needs Assessment" (Jack Richards, Nobuyuki Hino); "The Normative Bases of Needs Assessment in Applied Linguistics" (Richard Berwick);"ESL Theory and the Fries Legacy" (Joan Morley, Betty Wallace Robinett, Larry Selinker, Devon Woods); and "Understanding Refugee Second Language Learning" (Howard H. Kleinmann). (MSE)