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The following papers on interdisciplinary cooperation in second language instruction are included: (1) "Language Teaching: Possibilities for Interdisciplinary Co-operation," by James E. Alatis; (2) "L'insegnamento della letteratura italiana (The Teaching of Italian Literature)," by Ezio Raimondi; (3) "Objective Evaluation and Transparency," by Rebecca M. Valette; (4) "Comment integrer l'etude de la litterature a l'apprentissage des langues etrangeres (How to Integrate the Study of Literature with the Teaching of Foreign Languages)," by Jean Verrier; (5) "Mediendidaktik: Moeglichkeiten und Perspektiven im Sprachunterricht (Educational Media: Possibilities and Perspectives in Language Instruction)," by Horst G. Weise; and (6) "Nutzbarmachung der in der Muttersprache erworbenen Fertigkeiten beim Erlernen einer Fremdsprache (Utilization of Proficiency Acquired in the Native Language in Learning a Foreign Language)," by Irmhild Wragge-Lange. Each paper except the first is followed by a summary in English of the discussion engendered by the paper. (JB)

The 16 papers presented in this volume are arranged according to three sub-topics of the general theme of second language instruction: individual needs, interdisciplinary cooperation, and multilingualism. The first paper in each section is the main lecture, which is followed by specialized lectures. (JB)

Experts in education from universities and other centers of research, coming from almost 60 countries and meeting in a world congress, studied the factors underlying self realization in education. The essential points presented through the various reports are: (1) All human beings have potentialities which should be developed to an optimum degree. It is the responsibility of society to develop conditions which will enable the individual to achieve self actualization. (2) There is complete agreement that self realization is one of the most important questions throughout the world. (3) Self realization is a very complex problem which involves many conditions and which is affected by very diverse influences. (4) The problems which confront all educators and teachers in the realization of personality are manifold. (5) Educational research in relation to the problem of self actualization has shown itself to be of major importance. This volume contains the papers presented at the conference. Those presentations that are in a foreign language are summarized in English. (CJ)