Papers in this serial on aspects of applied linguistics include: "An Investigation into Teachers' Attitudes to Using Literature in the Language Classroom" (Marie Gilroy); "Creating Multimedia Courseware for ESP" (Philip Goertzen, Ron Howard); "A Comparison of Listening and Speaking Tests for Student Placement" (Anne Heller, Tony Lynch, Linda Wright); "English/Japanese Professional Interpretation: Its Linguistic and Conceptual Problems" (Luli Ishikawa); "The Analysis of Wartime Reporting: Problems of Transitivity" (Noriko Iwamoto); "Aspects of Reference in Figurative Language" (Anne Pankhurst); and "Research To Inform Advanced FL Courses Involving Translation: An Immodest Proposal" (Brian Parkinson). (MSE)