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This Israeli journal for teachers of English provides news reports and articles on aspects of teaching English in Israel. The brief news items address such topics as language examination formats, teacher certification examinations, teacher education degree programs, conferences, and new instructional materials. The articles cover the teaching of translation skills in secondary school, class projects, testing of oral proficiency, English curriculum for gifted children, using drama to teach English, the use of popular songs in English teaching, and the development of a multi-media television series for teaching English in secondary schools. Letters to the editor and Hebrew synopses of the journal articles are included. (RW)

The following articles on teaching English as a second language appear in this issue: (1) "Information for English Teachers" (on testing, literature, teaching reading skills, English in the weakest streams, and new publications); (2) "Relevant Issues in Contemporary Humanism--R.I.C.H.," by O. Zohar; (3) "Matriculation Research Papers in English," by D. Vardi; (4) "Teaching Poems," by D. Vogel; (5) "On Poems of Suffering by W. H. Auden and by G. Milosz," by Y. Allony-Fainberg; (6) "An Appraisal of Approaches to Learning and to Language Learning," by S. Been; (7) "Applied Linguistics at Lund," by N. Berkoff; (8) "Educational Centers in English," by G. Bekerman and I. Lapid; (9) "The Use of the Puppet-Theater in the English Lesson," by I. Tamir; (10) "Composition--Approaches and Evaluation (Part II)," by H. Stern; (11) "Teachers' Experiences in Teaching Gifted Children," by Dr. Zelicovici, M. Appelbaum, R. Lahav and V. Kardosh, and M. Unger; (12) "Can Thinking Habits Be Improved through the Teaching of English?" by E. Einhorn and G. Shoshani; and (13) "News from the Instructional Television Centre," by S. Been, D. Ben-Meir, and S. Kronfeld. Letters to the editor and synopses in Hebrew of the articles and features complete the issue. (AMH)