Politics of adult ESL literacy / Pamela Ferguson -- Learning to be legal / Pia Moriarty -- Relationship between knowing our students' real needs and effective teaching / Judy Manton -- Using journals in second language research and teaching / Bonny Norton -- Promoting gender equity in the postsecondary ESL class / Stephanie Vandrick -- Critical multiculturalism as a means of promoting social activism and awareness / Trudy Smoke -- Anorexia / Sarah Benesch -- Literature in the ESL classroom / Kate Mangelsdorf -- Fluency first in the ESL classroom / Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk -- Meeting ESL students' academic needs through discipline-based instructional programs / Loretta Frances Kasper -- Democracy and the ESL classroom / Timotha Doane -- Politics of pronunciation and the adult learner / Angela Parrino -- Political implications of responses to second language writing / Carol Severino -- Building on community strengths / Elsa Auerbach ... [et al.] -- Language and authority / J. Milton Clark and Carol Peterson Haviland -- Orphan at the table / Richard Blakely -- Creation and development of a community-based English program / Leslie Robbins -- Cooperative links energize New Jersey ESL/bilingual professionals / Jessie M. Reppy and Elaine Coburn -- Electronic communication, new technology, and the ESL student / Keming Liu -- Making connections through the Internet / Trudy Smoke.