Topics covered in papers presented at an international meeting on foreign language methodology include the following: how to sort out the new approaches to foreign language teaching methods; unconscious assimilation in foreign language learning; the lack of concrete answers arrived at during this meeting; methodological considerations in applying theory; scientific theory versus educational theory; communicative language teaching; methods, approaches, principles and practices; discourse analysis and EFL methodology; a survey of methods and techniques of language teaching in the world; principles and practice in computer-assisted language instruction; a humanistic approach to computer-assisted vocabulary learning; the Silent Way; changing language teaching approaches; community language learning; American language studies using Suggestopedia; the feelings revival; the explorative-creative way; unorthodox approaches to foreign language methodology; modern language grammar instruction; internalizing syntactic rules by iconic mediation; the learning of French spelling by migrant children; methodology as a link between objectives and teacher personality; and learners' characteristics and individualized instruction. Four of the articles are in French. A round table report is also included. (MSE)