A report on a two-year study of the use of microcomputers in language arts programs in Ontario provides information on the following topics: background and orientation of the study; project goals and methods; summary of needs and recommendations from the first year of the study; results from the second year; and general recommendations. The study surveyed 79 boards of education in Ontario, analyzed the quality and suitability of available software as well as software that was being developed, and made provisions for dissemination of findings to aid future software development. The four major recommendations are that: (1) language educators reflect on not only what is being done with computers but also what is being done without them, to measure the value of instructional methods; (2) teachers give priority to software "tools" and student-oriented programs, even those not explicitly designed for language instruction, rather than teacher-oriented software whose principal advantage is convenience; (3) software analysis be viewed as an ongoing part of software use; and (4) microcomputer resource centers be established at the boards of education and used for sharing information about current microcomputer uses, computer use planning, and as a software library and electronic bulletin board. (MSE)