Selected papers from the 1986 Southern Conference on Language Teaching on instruction for language proficiency are presented: "The Foreign Language Teacher: Confronting an Ever-Changing Profession" (Robert Di Donato); "Restructuring a Traditional Foreign Language Program for Oral Proficiency" (Filisha Camara-Norman, James Davis, Karen Smyley Wallace); "Brothers Grimm Bicentennial: Blueprint for a Community Celebration" (Sigrid Scholtz Novak); "Florida: State of the Foreign Language Arts" (Gabriel M. Valdes); "Planning and Teaching for Listening Proficiency" (Mary Harris, Jean Jendrzejewski); "Early Foreign Language Reading" (Douglas R. Magrath); "Memory Hooks: Clues for Language Retention" (Leslie Stickels, Marsha Schwartz); "Purpose Produces Proficiency: Writing-Based Projects for an Integrated Curriculum" (Linda S. Evans); "Phonetics, the Basis for all Levels of Proficiency in French Pronunciation" (Dorothy M. DiOrio); "Implications of Brain Hemisphere Research for Second Language Teaching and Learning" (Ernest A. Frechette); and "Listening Skills Development Through Massive Comprehensible Input" (Theodore B. Kalivoda). (MSE)