The proceedings of the Georgetown Round Table on Bilingual Education discuss the topic in seven sections: (1) aspects of bilingualism, (2) bilingual assessment, (3) research directions in bilingual education, (4) new developments, (5) bilingualism as a factor in interpretation and translation, (6) the current state level trend in the assessment of language minority students, and (7) cross-cultural communication. Within these sections, the following topics are addressed: ethnicity; language skills and student placement; ethnographic research; language proficiency; psychological, social, and linguistic analysis of the language minority child; community factors; special education; biliteracy in grade 1; the input hypothesis; the training of interpreters; trends in student assessment in Massachusetts, Texas, California, and Illinois; bilingualism in the People's Republic of China; learning styles and vocabulary instruction; classroom techniques and code-switching; positive effects of bilingualism on science problem solving abilities; second language learning as it affects Chinese children in American classrooms; and cross-cultural communication in the classroom. (AMH)