The following articles on teaching English as a second language appear in this issue: (1) "Information for English Teachers" (on testing, literature, teaching reading skills, English in the weakest streams, and new publications); (2) "Relevant Issues in Contemporary Humanism--R.I.C.H.," by O. Zohar; (3) "Matriculation Research Papers in English," by D. Vardi; (4) "Teaching Poems," by D. Vogel; (5) "On Poems of Suffering by W. H. Auden and by G. Milosz," by Y. Allony-Fainberg; (6) "An Appraisal of Approaches to Learning and to Language Learning," by S. Been; (7) "Applied Linguistics at Lund," by N. Berkoff; (8) "Educational Centers in English," by G. Bekerman and I. Lapid; (9) "The Use of the Puppet-Theater in the English Lesson," by I. Tamir; (10) "Composition--Approaches and Evaluation (Part II)," by H. Stern; (11) "Teachers' Experiences in Teaching Gifted Children," by Dr. Zelicovici, M. Appelbaum, R. Lahav and V. Kardosh, and M. Unger; (12) "Can Thinking Habits Be Improved through the Teaching of English?" by E. Einhorn and G. Shoshani; and (13) "News from the Instructional Television Centre," by S. Been, D. Ben-Meir, and S. Kronfeld. Letters to the editor and synopses in Hebrew of the articles and features complete the issue. (AMH)