This article describes the seminar on research in adult language education held in Nancy, France, in June, 1977. It includes reports on the four roundtables and gives details concerning organization and membership, as well as a list of the topics that were discussed. The four roundtables addressed the issues of student needs and motivation, evaluation, instructional materials and audiovisual aids, and learning processes. Topics covered by the forty-one papers presented during the seminar include the philosophy, psychology, biology, and methodology of second language teaching; the motivation and learning processes of adults learning English at the University of Metz; audiovisual aids in language teaching; the learning and teaching of languages for special purposes; the teaching of Russian to adults; a critical look at autoinstructional approaches; the accessibility to psychology students of bibliographies of research in English; and literacy and the teaching of French to foreign workers. (CLK)