This document consists of the two volume 8 issues of "The JALT Journal," containing the following articles: "The Acquisition of English Interrogatives by a Japanese Speaker" (Yoko Shimada); "Evaluating Teachers' Guides: Do Teachers' Guides Guide Teachers?" (Hywel Coleman); "Teaching and Learning Styles of ESL Student Teachers" (Christine Uber Grosse); "Teaching Writing as a Process of Communication at the Tertiary Level" (Michele Chan); "Second Language Learning Errors: Their Types, Causes and Treatment" (Hanna Touchie); "Response Styles of Japanese and American College Students" (Frances Horler, Junichi Yamazaki); "A Study of Nonverbal Intercultural Communication between Japanese and Americans--Focusing on the Use of the Eyes" (Takahiko Hattori); "Sources of Error: The Third Person Singular Present in Japanese Learner English" (Neville Saunders); "Development of Pragmatic Competence by Japanese Learners of English" (Tomoko Takahashi, Leslie Beebe); and "English as an International Language (EIL): Smith's Philosophy of English for Intercultural Communication" (Yukihiro Nakayama). Book reviews and proceedings from a November 1986 JALT conference held in Hamamatsu (Japan) are also included. (MSE)