This issue of a journal designed to present works in progress by students and professors of linguistics contains the following papers: "In Praise of My Language" (Joshua A. Fishman); "How Does Social Status Affect the Sequencing Rules of Other-Introductions?" (Fred J. Chen); "The Role of Ethno-Lingual Relativity in Second Language Acquisition" (James L. Citron); "Debating the 1990 Luso-Brazilian Orthographic Accord" (Pedro M. Garcez); "Shared Writing: Students' Perceptions and Attitudes of Peer Review" (Andrea M. Murau); and "So What Are You Talking About?': The Importance of Student Questions in the ESL Classroom" (Ellen Skilton, Thomas Meyer). (AB)