This scholarly journal, an official publication of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, was established to provide an interdisciplinary forum on issues related to the acquisition of language, literacy development, and instructional theory and practice. Articles in Volume 5, Number 1 are: "Affinities and Contradictions: The Dynamics of Social or Acquisition Learning" (Don Holdaway); "Is Early Literacy Intervention Effective for English Language Learners? Evidence from Reading Recovery" (Jane Ashdown and Ognjen Simic); and "Re-Conceptualizing a Change Model: Implementation of the Early Literacy Research Project" (Janet Scull and Neville J. Johnson). Articles in Volume 5, Number 2 are: "Children's Achievement and Personal and Social Development in a First-Year Reading Recovery Program with Teachers in Training" (Lorene C. Quay; Donald C. Steele; Clifford I. Johnson; William Hortman); "Inventing Literate Identities: The Influence of Texts and Contexts" (Prisca Martens and Susan Adamson); and "Teacher Leadership: A Key Factor in Reading Recovery's Success" (Jean F. Bussell). (NKA)