This volume consists of 35 papers divided into the following 12 sections: (1) organizational policy: a dialogue between TESOL and bilingual education--two papers on compatibility and cooperation; (2) second language acquisition--six papers dealing with language learning and teaching, effect of background on learning, order of acquisition, overgeneralization, error analysis and some future trends; (3) research on teaching behavior and curriculum--two papers dealing with delayed oral practice and teachers' treatment of error; (4) two papers on bilingual education: issues in program planning; (5) regional dialects in bilingual education and ESOL--three papers dealing with the speech of Spanish-speaking Americans, language contact and dialect; (6) two papers on nonverbal communication in the classroom; (7) human relations, affect, and communicative competence--four papers on developing communicative competence through humanism and group work; (8) general ESOL teaching techniques--four papers about communicative starters, games, mini-lessons and television commercials; (9) teaching specific aspects of English--two papers on numbers and passive voice at beginning levels; (10) teaching writing skills--three papers on composition courses, sentence combining and collective storywriting; (11) teaching reading skills--three papers on advanced reading, teaching of literature and reading the news; and (12) new developments in testing--two papers on intercultural acceptance and the cloze procedure. The cross-referenced ED numbers, above, refer to papers from this collection already in the ERIC system. (TL)