This issue contains seven articles, including the following: "Dictionary, Systemicity, Motivation" (Tom Bartlett); "The Nature of the Initial State Zulu L2 Grammar and Subsequent Interlanguage Development" (Sibusisiwe Dube); "Translating the Folk" (Bryan Fletcher); "The Acquisition of the English Article System in Persian Speakers" (Ardeshir Geranpayeh); "Orwell on Language and Politics" (John Joseph); "An Evaluation of the Revised Test of English at Matriculation at the University of Edinburgh" (Tony Lynch); "Features, Cobwebs, or Clines: Towards a Possible Model of Lexical Retrieval in Bilingual Readers" (Valerie Waggot). (References appear at the end of each article.) (KFT)