This collection of papers includes: "Foreign Language Testing Today: Issues in Language Program Direction" (Frank Nuessel); "Assessing the Problems of Assessment" (M. Peter Hagiwara); "Testing in Foreign Language Programs and Testing Programs in Foreign Language Departments: Reflections and Recommendations" (Elizabeth B. Bernhardt and Craig Deville); "Two Philosophies of Language Program and Language Testing Design" (Hector Hammerly); "The Development of a Foreign Language Placement System at the University of Iowa" (Irene Wherritt, Cynthia Druva-Roush, and Joyce E. Moore); "Self-Assessment and Placement: A Review of the Issues" (L. Kathy Heilenman); "Using an Exit Requirement to Assess the Global Performance of Undergraduate Foreign Language Students" (Ken Fleak); "Just Do It: Directing TAs toward Task-Based and Process-Oriented Testing" (Sally Sieloff Magnan); "A Survey and Analysis of Tests Accompanying Elementary French Textbooks" (Joel Waltz); "On the Dual Nature of the Second-Language Reading Proficiency of Beginning Language Learners" (James F. Lee); "Assessing Foreign Language Listening: Processes, Strategies, and Comprehension" (Susan M. Bacon); and "The Oral Task of Picture Description: Similarities and Differences in Native and Nonnative Speakers of Spanish" (Terry L. Ballman). (Papers contain references.) (SM)