This newsletter contains a variety of articles on topics related to teaching English as a second language. The first article provides a general discussion of the development of teaching methods for foreign language instruction and of the needs that must be met for successful language teaching. The second article discusses reading and the need for oral language proficiency before reading instruction is introduced. The third article attempts to show the co-occurrence and non-co-occurrence of tense carrier and the verb in simple predicates. A brief discussion of differences in usage between British and American English is included in the issue, as is a chart showing possible consonant clusters in English. (VM)