A collection of nine papers from the fourth part of the conference on the applications of foreign language and international studies to business addresses the issue of program and instructional design. The papers include: "Program Design, Lesson Planning and Strategies for Foreign Language Business Courses: An Overview" (Ronald Cere), "The Importance of the Commercial Document in Teaching Foreign Language for Business" (Carolyn L. Jacobs), "Business Correspondence in a Foreign Language Made Easy and Fun to Teach" (Denise Guback),"The Stockmarket in Foreign Language Classes for Business" (Alois Zeit), "Training of Language Educators for Business Language Courses" (Maude S. Walther), "Teaching Culture to Business Students: An Anthropological Approach" (Carolyn V. Bell), "The Language Teacher as Cross-Cultural Trainer: Approaches" (William Schwab), "The Language Teacher as Cross-Cultural Trainer: Topics" (Lucinda Hart-Gonzalez), and "Defining and Measuring Foreign Language Proficiency in Programs for Business" (David V. Hiple and Kathryn Buck). Two appendices to the last article contain extensive material on proficiency standards. (MSE)