The purpose of these working papers is to reflect the current activities of members of the Centre for Language in Education at the University of Southampton, England. They include: (1) "Inaugural Lecture: Is Language Education or Is Education Language?" (Christopher Brumfit); (2) "Teachers' Views of Language Knowledge" (Rosamond Mitchell and Janet Hooper); (3) "The Importance of Poetry in Children's Learning" (Michael Benton); (4) "English, Media and Information in the Post-Cox Era" (Andrew Hart); (5) "Representation of Black Experience in Literature for Young People" (Beverley Naidoo); (6) "Putting 'Language' Back in the Modern Languages Degree" (Clare Mar-Molinero and Patrick Stevenson); (7) "Television is Beautiful" (Peter Moran); (8) "Appropriate Help for Secondary School Students with Specific Learning Difficulties" (Virginia Kelly); (9) "Language Learning within Academic Constraints" (George M. Blue); and (10) "The World of John and Mary Smith: A Study of Quirk and Greenbaum's 'University Grammar of English'" (Kate Stephens). (NAV)