This journal issue presents works in progress by students and professors on topics ranging from speech act analysis and classroom discourse to language planning and second language acquisition. Papers are generally based on research carried out for courses offered in the Language in Education Division of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. This issue contains three articles: "From Interpersonal to Classroom Discourse: Developing Research Methods" (Elite Olshtain); "Error Treatment in a Japanese Language Classroom" (Aiko Inoue and Mitsuo Kubota); and "Cross-cultural Communication in the Writing Center and in the Tutoring Session: A Process of Sensitization" (Michelle Y. Szpara). The Olshtain article is a text of a talk presented at the 1994 Nessa Wolfson Memorial Colloquium. The Inoue/Kubota article examines the educational practices employed to prepare business students to operate effectively in the Japanese business world. The Szpara article explores the institutional history of serving English-as-a-Second-Language students at Penn State, surveys both tutors and students, and develops materials for use in the Penn State Writing Center. Each article contains references. (NAV)