This collection of six essays and one bibliography on second language learning includes: (1) "Transfer in Relation to Some Other Variables in L2-Learning" (Hakan Ringbom); (2) "Word Frequencies in Finnish and Finland-Swedish Learner Language" (Hakan Ringbom); (3) "The Influence of Swedish on the English of Finnish Learners" (Hakan Ringbom); (4) "On Errors Made by Finnish-Speaking and Swedish-Speaking University Students in Oral Production in French" (Anja Elo); (5) "How Much English Vocabulary Do Swedish-Speaking Primary-School Pupils Know before Starting to Learn English at School?" (Rolf Palmberg); (6) "Bilingual Education: A Study of the French Immersion Program in Canada Considering the Possibilities of Adaptation to Finnish Schools" (Tuija Helle); and (7) "Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Multilingualism: A Bibliography" (Yvonne Henriksson and Hakan Ringbom). (MSE)