The ways that students can learn about the nature of the English language and develop a sense of excitement about their language are explored in this focused journal issue. The titles of the essays and their authors are as follows: (1) "Language, the Forgotten Content" (R. Small and P. P. Kelly); (2) "What Should English Teachers Know about Language?" (J. C. Stalker); (3) "What Should Language Arts Teachers Teach about Language?" (C. Harrison); (4) "Finding Order to Language in the Elementary Classroom" (E. H. Thompson); (5) "Grammar: How and When" (J. H. Bushman); (6) "Standard English, World English, and Students' Rights to Their Own Language" (F. A. Cronin); (7) "Dialects: Resolving the 'My English-This English' Conflict" (J. Baker); (8) "Noah Webster: The Legacy of 'The Prompter'" (L. Alvine); (9) "It's 'Just' a Matter of Semantics!" (M. Kaiser); (10) "The Phenomenon of Metaphor" (D. Gilmore); (11) "A Way Out of the Spelling Mess" (K. Gill); (12) "Studying Personal Names" (B. Born); (13) "Vocabulary Study as Performance" (E. Miller); (14) "Teaching the History of English" (A. Reddy); (15) "Test for Teachers" (S. E. Burkhardt); (16) "Language in Context: The Child, the Critic, and the Language of Literature" (B. A. Lehman); (17) "Sensitivity to Language" (M. J. Weiss); (18) "Teaching High School Students about Language Acquisition" (E. A. Poe); (19) "Writing a Linguistic Autobiography" (M. A. Christiansen); (20) "Learning English with a Foreign Accent" (E. Eidman-Aadahl); (21) "A Library for Teaching about the English Language" (D. J. Kenney); and (22)"Prospective Teachers Writing to Learn Grammar" (W. Self). (NKA)