These four issues of a bulletin on the use of dialogue journals in foreign language teaching include these articles: "Dialogue Journals and Reading Comprehension"; "Secret Messages: Dialogue Journals as a Reading Event"; "The Teacher's Writing as Text"; "Using Dialogue Journals in Reading Classes"; "Effective Teacher Change: A Focus on the Individual"; "ESL Teachers as Language Advocates for Children"; "'Sheltered English' Applied to Writing"; "Writing and Reflecting on Writing"; "Making Language Connections: Writing in ESL Pull-Out Classes"; "Using Dialogue Journals to Develop a Discourse-Based Performance Measure"; a review of "Teacher Strategies: Linguistic Devices for Sustaining Interaction" (a dissertation); "'How Is Your Weekend and What Did You Do': Second Language Learners' Understanding of Audience"; "The Dialogue Journal and Migrant Education"; "Features of Semi-Literate Writing: One Student's Development"; "Using Dialogue Journals for a More Meaningful Cultural Orientation Class"; "Moving Students from Frozen to More Creative Language Use"; "Yes, Teacher, There Is Hope!"; "A Principal's View of Dialogue Journals"; "The Safety Valve"; "Dialogue in Marketing Education"; "Time--The Greatest Gift"; "Research on Teacher Strategies: Exploring the Effects of Glib Responses to Journal Entries"; "Mapping Conversational Roles"; and "Interactive Writing with Computers: One Solution to the Time Problem." Recent publications and notes from the field are also included. (MSE)