Reports of language research in the 1996 issue include: "Corpus Planning for the Southern Peruvian Quechua Language" (Serafin M. Coronel-Molina); "Foreign Language Planning in U.S. Higher Education: The Case of a Graduate Business Program" (Mitchell A. Furumoto); "Charting New Directions: Of Communication in a Social Service Setting" (Craig Heim); "Appropriacy Planning: Speech Acts Studies and Planning Appropriate Models for ESL Learners" (Mitsuo Kubota). Reports in the 1997 issue include: "Tradition and Transition in Second Language Teaching Methodology" (Teresa Pica); "Cultural Consciousness in a Language Class" (Hiamanti Banerjee); "Language Policy: Status Planning for the Quechua Language in Peru" (Coronel-Molina); "Politeness Strategies in the Workplace: Which Experiences Help Japanese Businessmen Acquire American English Native-Like Strategies?" (Yuko Nakajima); and "Who Is Telling Stories and Whose Stories Are Being Told?" (Anne Pomerantz). An index to 1984-1997 issues of the journal and abstracts of 1996-97 doctoral dissertations done for the Language in Education Division (LED) of the University of Pennsylvania are also included. (MSE)