A collection of papers of directions in second language education includes: "The Improvement of Foreign Language Competency in the United States" (Richard D. Lambert); "The Measurement of Foreign/Second Language Proficiency" (Lyle F. Bachman, John D. Clark); "Advanced Technology in Foreign Language Instruction and Translation" (John Fought); "Recent Innovations in Language Teaching Methodology" (Diane Larsen-Freeman); "The Language Teaching Curriculum and a National Agenda" (Dale L. Lange); "The Experimental Classroom" (Michael H. Long); "Truly Foreign Languages: Instructional Challenges" (Eleanor H. Jorden, A. Ronald Walton); "Training for High-Level Language Skills" (Cornelius C. Kubler); "Language Teaching in the Federal Government: A Personal Perspective" (Ray T. Clifford);"Foreign Language Teacher Education: Current Practices and an Assessment of Needs" (Alice C. Omaggio, Stanley L. Shinall); "Dissemination and Diffusion of Progress in the Foreign Language Teaching Field: A National Plan" (Claire L. Gaudiani); "Language Conservation" (Russell N. Campbell, Susan Schnell); "The Humanistic Basis of Second Language Learning" (Winfred P. Lehmann, Randall L. Jones); and "Theoretical Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Language Pedagogy" (Frank Heny). (MSE)