This collection of articles on foreign language instruction in junior and community colleges focuses on four principal areas: the junior community college, the "Proceedings of the Illinois Conference on Foreign Languages in Junior and Community Colleges," factual information, and action reports. The articles discuss pluralism and the community college, community colleges in the 1980's, conservation and innovation, curriculum development, application of technology to teaching foreign languages, preparation of foreign language teachers for the junior community college, junior-senior articulation problems, status of foreign languages in the two-year college, English as a second language, student attitudes toward French, conversational French, the terminal student, career Spanish, self-paced introductory French, a bibliography on individualized instruction in foreign languages, sequencing of course content, substitute and supplementary German language courses, beginning German, diversifying introductory courses, French cooking, the active classroom, testing, foreign language requirements, a French camp and related cost factors, study and training abroad, and a short-term overseas study-travel program. A list of participants is included. (RL)