The seven issues of the newsletter contain articles, letters, professional announcements, reports, reviews, and classroom instructional ideas of interest to teachers of adult English as a Second Language (ESL). Articles address these topics: diversity and commonalities among language and literacy teachers; part-time teaching; literacy for homeless women with drug and alcohol problems; an organization of Central American students; an organization of adult learners concerned about the future of a school; an English proficiency test; program evaluation; a student's thoughts about coming to America; teacher licensing; the role of theory in program or individual assessment; the teacher as student in participatory learning; workplace education projects; ethnographic analysis for curriculum development; workplace program evaluation; publication of student writing; teaching older adults; learner-generated materials; taking and using photographs in class; language simplification; writing in the native language; family literacy; poetry about jobs and work; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) resource materials; team-teaching with a psychiatrist for students with post-traumatic stress disorder; on-line professional communication; cancer education; advocacy; federal legislation; reading aloud; and first-language literacy. Vol. 19, n1 has theme "Workplace Literacy." Vol. 19, n2 has theme "Publishing Student Work." Vol. 21, n1 has theme "Health Education in Adult ESL." Vol. 21, n2 has theme "Native Language Literacy." (MSE) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education)