Augustus A. Koski, editor of the publications series of the Foreign Service Institute's School of Language Studies expedited the work and provided encouragement at many points.
In 1969, I drafted for the Peace Corps a set of five fascicles on developing materials for language learning. Revisions of some parts of these have entered into Chapters 2, 6, 7 and 8 of this report. The drafts were discussed and tested rather widely during that year: in a workshop for language coordinators from the districts of Micronesia, held in February under the direction of David Burns; during a week of consultation with language and education specialists in Korea, particularly Park, Chang-Hae, Director of Yonsei University's Korean Language Institute, Whang, Chan-Ho, Director of the Language Research Institute at Seoul National University, Lee, Chong-Soo, Dean of the College of Education at the same institution, and my long-time friend and colleague Dwight Strawn; at a two-week workshop for language training specialists for the international volunteer sending agencies of a number of countries, sponsored by the International Secretariat for Volunteer Services in Furudal, Sweden, in June of 1969, at which Gordon Evans was especially helpful; by Clifford H. Prator, Russell N. Campbell, and Lois McIntosh of U.C.L.A., who provided written comments; and in a high-intensity Spanish program conducted for the United States Peace Corps by Elton Anglada in Santiago, Chile.
The heart of this report is to be found in Chapter 3. That chapter was drafted at the very beginning of the project, circulated in successive versions to a large number of people who represented many different parts of the language teaching profession, and was the last part of this book to receive final revision. Those who contributed either written or specific oral comments include:
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