The proceedings include: (1) "Communicative Competence Reconsidered," by M. Doushaq; (2) "Scenarios for Enhancing Communicative Competence," by G. Salah; (3) "Oral Style Strategies in EFL Written Discourse: Implications for Teaching College Composition," by O. Atari; (4) "Arabic and English Imperative Structures," by M. Anani; (5) "Simplification and Reduction as Foreign Language Learning Strategies: Implications from Jordanian Arabs Learning English," by Y. El-Halees; (6) "The Stressing of Final Superheavy Syllables by Saudi Learners of English: Implications for the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis," by M. Younes; (7) "Achievement Testing and Foreign Language Teaching," by A. Abdrabou; (8) "Educational Theory and TESL/TEFL: Where the Antipathy Has Led to," by H. El Fadil; (9)"Linguistic Analysis as an Input to Course Design," by T. Khalid; (10) "Basic Academic Requirements of Foreign Students in Departments of English," by G. Salamah; (11) "On the Notions 'Standard' and 'Prestigious' in Arabic Sociolinguistics," by M. Ibrahim; (12) "Arabicization and the Role of English Language Teaching in Arab Universities with Special Reference to the Iraqi Experiment," by L. Barkho; (13) "Subject-Object Relations and Word Order in Standard Arabic," by S. Suleiman; (14) "Definiteness in Arabic from an Axiomatic Functional Point of View," by S. Hadj-Mohamed; (15) "Adjectives, Nouns, and Copredication in English," by J. Bunnaq; (16) "Palestinian Arabic Vowels," by J. Cormick; and (17) "Consonant Assimilation in Arabic: An Autosegmental Approach," by I. Abu-Salim. (MSE)