A collection of 17 papers, most presented at the Fifth International Conference on Contrastive Projects in June 1982 in Finland, includes: "Present Trends in Contrastive Linguistics,""Contrastive Linguistics in Bulgaria,""Communicative Competence in Foreign Language Teaching: A Project Report,""From Traditional Contrastive Linguistics Towards a Communicative Approach: Theory and Applications within the Finnish-English Cross-Language Project,""Estonian-English Contrastive Studies,""Report on the English-Hungarian Contrastive Linguistics Project,""A Plea for Contrastive Psycholinguistics", "Language Variation and the Death of Language Teaching,""Grammatical Models and Contrastive Analysis,""Applied Contrastive Linguistics: In Search of a Framework", "Some Psychological Aspects of Contrastive Pragmatics or, In Search of a Cognitive Contrastive Analysis of Social Interaction (CCASI),""A Translation-Based Model of Contrastive Analysis,""Contrastive Pragmatics and the Foreign Language Learner's Personality,""Immigrant Children in Germany: Their Grammatical Ablities in English as a Foreign Language,""Understanding Idioms in First and Second Language Acquisition: A Preliminary Analysis,""The Learning of Coventional Syntagms by Finnish Comprehensive School Pupils," and "On Simplification: Simple and Simplified Language in Examination Papers." (MSE)