This collection of articles on second language learning includes: "Action, langage et discours. Les fondements d'une psychologie du langage" ("Action, Language, and Discourse. Foundations of a Psychology of Language") (Jean-Paul Bronckart); "Contextes socio-culturels et appropriation des languages secondes: l'apprentissage en milieu social et la creolisation" ("Socio-Cultural Contexts and Second Language Acquisition: Learning in a Social Setting and Creolization") (Daniel Veronique); "Role des reseaux sociaux dans le maintien de la langue maternelle, dans le developpement bilingue et dans le developpement de la litteracie" ("Role of Social Networks in Native Language Maintenance, in Bilingual Development, and in Literacy Development") (Josiane Hamres); "De l'oral a l'ecrit en francais langue etrangere: les procedes d'integration discursive" ("From Oral to Written Language in French as a Second Language: The Processes of Discourse Integration") (Robert Bouchard); "Analyse conversationnelle et recherche sur l'acquisition" ("Conversational Analysis and Research on Acquisition") (Ulrich Krafft, Ulrich Dausendschon-Gay); "Communication exolingue et contextes d'appropriation: le continuum acquisition/apprentissage" ("Exolinguistic Communication and Contextes of Acquisition: The Acquisition/Learning Continuum") (Remy Porquier); and "Representations metalinguistiques des apprenants, des enseignants et des linguistes: un defi pour la didactique" ("Metalinguistic Manifestations of Learners, Teachers, and Linguists: A Challenge for Teaching") (Anne Trevise). Individual articles contain references. (MSE)