This journal is intended to be a vehicle for professional communication, discussion, and debate in the field of foreign language education, with a special emphasis on the instruction of adults in both commonly taught and less commonly taught languages, for functional purposes, in an intensive setting. Topics in this volume include the following:…

The 1987 volume of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) newsletter includes articles on developing exercises for use with films in the classroom; foreign students; professionalism and the master's degree in teaching English as a second language (ESL); international issues; the politics of ESL instruction; teachers in the…