This is the second of 12 research reports on the phenomenon of language instruction within a large class environment. The report is written in five sections. The second section (following the introductory first section) discusses the reasons for studying large classes in language instruction, including the facts that teachers find large classes cause difficulties that affect teaching performance, that large classes are becoming commonplace, and that very little has been done to address the problem or train English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers to instruct under such difficult circumstances. The third section outlines and explains the project's activities, namely, creating a bibliography, networking, organizing colloquia, and promoting and undertaking research. Section 4 presents the nine specific questions that the project is attempting to study. These include the following: the teacher's concerns, the extent of the large class phenomenon, the reasons for the occurrence of large classes, attitudes towards large classes, data collection in large classes, the performance of large classes, strategies in large classes, language acquisition in large classes, and experiments in large classes. Section 5 summarizes and presents conclusions. (GLR)