Papers presented at the City University of New York's English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Council conference on the relationship between text and context in college second language instruction include the following: "Reading Research: New Directions and Implications for ESL" (M. Trika Smith-Burke); "Two ESL Readers: Case Studies of Reading Comprehension Strategies" (Ellen L. Block); "Reading, an Essential Part of the Writing Process" (Gay Brookes, Martha Clark Cummings, Jean Withrow); "Easy Doesn't Do It: Introducing ESL Readers to 'Real English'" (Nancy Erber Cadet); "Aesopic Double 'Takeoutables'" (Mary J. Regan); "Two Walks: Ways of Presenting Poetry" (Jean McConochie); "Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Processing: A Possible Grounding for Second Language Acquisition Research" (Gay N. Washburn); "Vygotskian Theory and Language Testing" (Jack Gantzer); "Person to Person: Structured Conversations between ESL Students and Native Speakers" (Carol Montgomery); and "A Writer's Strategy for Talkers: The Oral Journal" (Sally Mettler). (MSE)