Volume 2, Number 1 — March 1996 A Word from the Editors… Articles Academic And Non-academic Difficulties: Perceptions of Graduate Non-English Speaking Background Students; Ed Burke & Claire Wyatt-Smith (19 Pgs) Towards an ESOL Literature; Michael Newman & Merce Pujol (22 Pgs) Mind the Gap: Thoughts on Self Help and Non-judgmental Observation in the Classroom ; John Norrish (11 Pgs) Forum Who Needs Applied Linguistics?; John Wilson On the Internet The Next Generation and Plugs for the Web; Jim Duber Media Reviews Learning English; Echo Farrow CUE-5 and Software CALLection CD-ROM; Jim Buell The Electronic Oxford Wordpower Dictionary ; Michael F. Feldman Conference Watcher Current version direct from Roy Cochrun’s web site Reviews Textbooks Flower, John, et al, American Vocabulary Program Books 1, 2, 3;Flower, John, and Ron Martinez, American Business Vocabulary; Reviewed by Margy Lawrence Teacher Resource Books Krater, Joan, Jane Zeni and Nancy Devlin Cason (1994), Mirror Images: Teaching Writing in Black and White; Reviewed by Jean LeLoup Freeman, David E, and Yvonne S. Freeman (1994), Between Worlds: Access to Second Language Acquisition; Reviewed by Thomas A. Upton Fu, Danling (1995), “My Trouble Is My English” — Asian Students and the American Dream; Reviewed by Jacklyn B. Clayton Warschauer, Mark (1995), E-Mail for English Teaching: Bringing the Internet and Computer Learning Networks into the Language Classroom; Reviewed by Ron Corio Second Language Acquisition Menyuk, Paula, Jacqueline W. Liebergott and Martin C. Schultz (1995), Early Language Development in Full-Term and Premature Infants; Reviewed by Suzanne Irujo Tomasello, Michael, and William E. Merriman (eds.) (1995), Beyond Names for Things: Young Children’s Acquisition of Verb; Reviewed by Tom Leverett Other Chafe, Wallace (1994), Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Reading and Writing; Reviewed by Anca Nemoianu Emmory, Karen, and Judy Reilly (eds.) (1995), Language, Gesture, and Space; Reviewed by Robert J. Hoffmeister May, Stephen (1994), Making Multicultural Education Work; Reviewed by Steffani R. White