Proceedings of a seminar on communications skills training for English-as-a-Second-Language teachers in the context of aid projects overseas are presented in the form of papers, presentations, and summary narrative. They include: "Educational Project Management: Survey of Communications Skills Requirements in Aid Projects in Indonesia" (John Webb & John Sinclair); "Support for Technical Education at Polytechnics in Nigeria" (Geoffrey Ward & Richard Freeman); "The Principles and Practice of Communication Skills Course Design" (Paul Rea); "Communication Skills Courses in Britain for Aid Project Counterparts and Trainees" (Ron White & Pauline Robinson); "Basic Level Language Proficiency Testing" (Peter Hargreaves and Clive Bruton); "KELT in ODA Country Programmes" (Beryl Steele); a series of case study design tasks ("The Training of Technical Teachers from Egyptian Advanced Technical Schools, Alexandria"; "The ODA/Instituto Nacionale Pesca Fishery Project, Guayaquil, Ecuador"; "The British Council English Language Teaching Unit, Colombo, Sri Lanka"; "The British Council English Language Centre, Jakarta, Indonesia"; "The Institute of Health Sciences, Muscat Oman"); "The Design of a Distance Learning Course in Spoken English for Sukhothai Open University, Thailand" (Maurice Broughton); "A Task-Based Approach to Language Learning" (Dave Willis); "'Teaching and Learning in Focus': Adapting Video Based Teacher Training Materials to Different Contexts" (Dave Higgs); "Listening and Notetaking: A Gentle Introduction for Malaysian Students" (Jim Kerr); "English Language Training Support of Agricultural Development Projects for Kano Agricultural and Rural Development Authority, Nigeria" (Jack Lonergan); "Television English" (Jane Willis); "ELT Resources in the British Council" (Chris Hampshire); "The Brazilian National ESP Project" (John Holmes); "Cross Cultural Communication Differences in the Arab World" (Clive Holes); "The Role of the English Teaching Coordination Unit in the British Council" (Heather Simpson); and "Counter Applications for ELT" (Paul de Quincey). (MSE)