This special issue consists of the following seven articles on communicative competence: (1) "Psycholinguistics and Language Teaching," by Elisabeth Ingram; (2) "Current Trends in Language Teaching at the C.R.A.P.E.L.," by Philip Riley; (3) "Who Needs a Teacher? - An Alternative to the 'Conversation Class'," by Ken Meaney; (4) "Some Current Problems in Language Testing," by Viljo Kohonen; (5) "Group Conversation as a Means of Teaching and Testing Spoken Language," by David Folland; (6) "Foreign Language Conversation Testing at Tampere Language Institute," by Walter Bacon and Sirkka-Liisa Ojanen; (7) "Spoken English Grading Test," by Philip Binham. (CFM)