Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Massachusetts, supports a prodigious English as a Second Language (ESL) program, which attracts large numbers of Hispanics, Asian Americans, and other minority language groups. They are accepted in the program only after they have learned the basic "survival" skills in the various pre-ESL programs around the city. They spend from two to three semesters in the ESL program before they are eligible for entry into a mainstream program, which usually places them in English 101. This program uses computer assisted instruction because it is designed to teach students to like to write and deals with the tedious process of rewriting and editing, an enticing approach for students who have difficulty learning a new language. Using the available tutorials for the "Volkswriter" word processing software, a series of steps was designed to help students write a few paragraphs on IBM personal computers. Students spend three hours in class work plus two hours in the computer lab each week. Around the fifth week, they are ready to use the computer on their own. They are also required to spend at least one of their computer hours working on developmental software to improve their skill at recognizing sentence errors, improve their vocabulary, and develop reading skills. Time conflicts between students working on programming and the ESL students, as well as frequent "down time" for the IBM programs have been serious problems in the computer lab, but they did not appear to affect enrollment. Twenty new computers, several printers, and different software programs have recently been added to the lab. (HTH)