This issue presents works in progress by students and professors at the University of Pennsylvania. Papers are generally based on research conducted for courses offered in the Language in Education Division of the Graduate School of Education. This issue contains the following papers: "Do Second Language Learners Need Negotiation?" (Teresa Pica); "Speech Act Variation in British and American English" (Angela Creese); "'School Ka Sabaq': Literacy in a Girls' Primary School in Rural Pakistan" (Iffat Farah); "Instruction vs. Interaction? A Study of the Acquisition of Modals by Beginning Non-Native Speakers" (Julian D. Linnell); and "An Examination of Consultant-Student Discourse in a Writing Center Conference" (Felicia Lincoln Porter). (LB)