This document contains six papers relating to the teaching of English as a foreign language. The titles and authors are as follows: "The Fail-Safe Micro Research Paper" (Mary Anne Saunders); "Is Role Playing an Effective EFL Teaching Technique?" (Frances L. Smith); "Research on the Cloze Procedure of Reading Comprehension and Its Use in the EFL Classroom" (Wen-hui Li); "Reading in English as a Foreign Language: Some Recent Research" (Paula Kalaja); "Teaching to Enhance Acquisition of Pragmatic Competence" (Karen L. Marcum); and "Child vs. Adult in Second Language Acquisition: Some Reflections" (Rahela Banu). (MSE)