This issue of a journal designed to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas among students and scholars on various aspects of linguistics in education contains the following papers: "The Importance of Participant Role in Cooperative Learning" (Rebecca Freeman); "The Trap of Generalization: A Case of Encountering a New Culture" (Masakazu Iino); "'Sticking Points': Effects of Instruction on NNS Refusal Strategies" (Kendall A. King, Rita Elaine Silver); "Planning Language-in-Education in Arkansas: A Case Study" (Felicia Lincoln-Porter); "Foreign Language Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania: A Language Planning Case Study" (Kristin I. Loheyde); and "Story, Voice, and Culture: The Politics of Narrative in Multicultural Education" (Cathy Luna). (MSE)