Papers in French, English, and Arabic address issues in Arabic language instruction for European adults, including: classroom techniques, literary Arabic and diglossia, the specificity of instruction, Arabic studies in Denmark, phonetic difficulties of instruction, Franco-Maghrebin relations and language instruction, contrastive and comparative analyses, comparison of Arabic and Bulgarian vowel phonemes, cultural elements in Arabic language instruction, contrastive textology and translation, Gulf Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, cultural instruction through literature, goals of Arabic instruction in Europe, problems and possibilities of intensive Arabic instruction, comparison of Arabic and Bulgarian grammars, forms of the Arabic plural, defining communicative competence, and the perils of translation in Arabic instruction. (MSE)