Essays in second language acquisition include: "The State of the Art in Second Language Acquisition Research" (Josine Lalleman); "Crosslinguistic Influence with Special Reference to the Acquisition of Grammar" (Michael Sharwood Smith); "Second Language Acquisition by Adult Immigrants: A Multiple Case Study of Turkish and Moroccan Learners of Dutch" (Guus Extra, Roeland van Hout); "Some Experimental Tasks in the Study of Word Recognition" (Cor J. Koster); "Strategies" (Nanda Poulisse); "Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition" (Vivian J. Cook); "Are There Principles of Universal Grammar That Do Not Apply to Second Language Acquisition?" (Paul van Buren); "Parameters in Non-Native Language Acquisition" (Bonnie D. Schwartz); "Parameter Setting and the Acquisition of Wh-Questions in L2 French" (Aafke Hulk); "A New Research Programme for the L2 Acquisition of Phonology" (Martha Young-Scholten); "Second Language Phonology" (Allan R. James); "Speech Perception and L2 Phonological Acquisition" (Henning Wode); "Lexicon and Grammar in Second Language Learning" (Paul Bogaards); "The Lexicon in Second Language Acquisition" (Rene Appel); and "Input and Instruction in Second Language Acquisition" (Peter Jordens). (MSE)