This document consists of the first two issues of the journal RELIEF. Each issue contains four articles. All articles deal with French second language instruction: (1) "Utiliser la presse ecrite en classe de francais-langue seconde (Using the Print Media in French Second Language Class)" (H. Canto); (2) "Une lecon de grammaire facile a concevoir, ou la linguistique structurale au service de l'enseignement du francais-langue etrangere (A Grammar Lesson That's Easy to Understand, or Structural Linguistics in the Service of French Foreign Language Instruction)" (P. Haillet); (3) "La Reforme de l'orthographe: Une analyse critique (The Reform of Orthography: A Critical Analysis)" (F. Khettry); (4) "'French in Action' en action: du bon usage de la video dans un enseignement integre de la langue et de la culture ('French in Action' in Action: Good Use of Video in Integrated Instruction of Language and Culture)" (C. LeGouis); (5) "A la decouverte de mon livre de grammaire (Discovery of My Grammar Textbook)" (Aline Germain-Rutherford); (6) "L'enseignement de la composition au niveau intermediaire (Composition Instruction at the Intermediate Level)" (Thierry A. Grassioulet); (7) "Prosodie et didactique (Prosody and Instruction)" (Elisabeth Guimbretiere); (8) "Un modele spatio-temporel pour le passe compose et l'imparfait (A Spatio-Temporal Model for the Past Perfect and Imperfect Tenses)" (Marguerite Mahler). (MSE)