The 12 volumes of the professional journal contain articles on a wide variety of topics on classroom techniques, curriculum design, class activities, and research in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teaching at all educational levels. General topics include: communicating with ESL students; current events in the classroom; cultural test bias; teaching listening comprehension; instructional materials; second language acquisition processes; Hmong refugees and language contact; teaching preliterate adults; discourse analysis and ESL; relevant course content for refugees; Hmong bilingualism; teacher professional growth; ESL for foreign teaching assistants; Montessori language lessons; classroom communication; neglected vocabulary needs; teaching relative clauses; preparing Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) students for on-the-job training; English for Special Purposes (ESP) for nursing students; teacher-planned needs assessment and curriculum development; use of sensitive topics in teaching; using visual stimuli for children's writing instruction; teaching paraphrasing; leaner self-monitoring of grammar in writing; choosing helpful examples of grammatical structures; Chinese students in American universities; foreign scholars; student-teacher collaboration; fossilization and learning strategies; creative writing; film study; emotional support for students; Southeast Asian literature; student textbook writing; national educational reform; drama as curriculum; program design; student cassette journals; test wiseness; art and language learning; teaching across academic cultures; perceptual learning style preferences; writing about culture; mainstreaming LEP students; Hmong women and higher education; gangs; and achievement tests. In later volumes, student work, book reviews, and teacher research are also included. (MSE)