*Classrdom Techniques; Communicative Competence

This voluMe of the "TESOL Newsletter " contains a number of articles of general information to teachers including artictes on the following topics: teacher training and evaluation; an:overview of English as a second.language (ESL) teaching today and thoughtsabWt its future; teacher certification; teaching methods; an excerpt frdm'a longer poem on English ' teaching; and the preparation ot papers for oral presentation. PractiCal teaching considerations-and techniques are presented in articles on the teaching of grammar,)6seadlng, communication strategies, writing, and English fc:T Special Purposes. Other articles discuss ESL testing practices, co1p4er assisted instruction, sociological aspects of teaching, teaching the refugee, Standard English as a second dialect, and the problem of teaching culture in the classroom. (Author/AMH) L