The proceedings of a two and one-half day symposium concerning the assessment of functional language ability through the oral interview process included the following papers: "The FSI/ILR/ACTFL Proficiency Scales and Testing Techniques: Development, Current Status, and Need Research" (John L. D. Clark, Ray T. Clifford); "The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines: An Update" (Judith E. Liskin-Gasparro); "Problems in Examining the Validity of the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview" (Lyle F. Bachman); "Legal Caveats on Communicative Proficiency Testing for Graduation Requirements or Teacher Certification" (Sally Magnan); "The Extension of Language Proficiency Guidelines and Oral Proficiency Testing to the Less Commonly Taught Languages" (David Hiple); "Application of the ILR-ACTFL Test and Guidelines to the Less Commonly Taught Languages (Ron Walton); "Bennett-Biersteker Model for Proficiency Profiling in African Languages" (Sally Magnan, Patrick Bennett); "Arabic-Specific Oral Proficiency Guidelines" (Ernest N. McCarus); "The Certificate of Dutch as a Foreign Language" (Jos Nivette); "Communicative Needs: The Case of Irish" (David Singleton); "Adapting ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines to Russian" (Irene Thompson); "Application of the ILR-ACTFL Test and Guidelines to Indonesian (John U. Wolff); "Testing Listening Comprehension in the Context of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (Dan Douglas); "The Problem of the Target Model in Proficiency-Oriented Foreign Language Instruction: (Albert Valdeman); "Four Challenges for Proficiency: Comments from within the AEI Proficiency Framework" (Pardee Lowe, Jr.); "Features of Pragmatic and Sociolinguistic Competence in the Oral Proficiency Interview" (Heidi Byrnes); "The Role of Grammar in the Development of Communicative Ability" (Nina Garrett); "What Price Grammar" (Simon Belasco); "L2 Vocabulary Acquisition" (Susan M. Gass); "Issues in Establishing and Maintaining a Language Proficiency Requirement (Barbara F. Freed); "Developing and Implementing Proficiency Oriented Tests for a New Language Requirement at the University of Minnesota (Dale L. Lange); and "Evaluation of Foreign Language Proficiency: Synthesis" (G. Richard Tucker). Individual presentations or group of presentations are followed by reaction/response papers, comments, and a summary of the discussion session.