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Materials
APPENDIX J
  1. Outside of class, ask the following people questions based on what you have learned in this cluster: 5 other trainees, 3 other instructors, 1 Spanish-speaking neighbor.
  2. Outside of class, learn to count from 5 to 15 by asking your instructors to count various objects for you. [Numbers from 1-5 had been taught in this lesson. These materials do not provide for teaching any further numbers in class.]

In summary, the favorable reactions of the users cannot be explained in terms of clever, innovative features of the materials themselves, for there were none. They depended, rather, on the extent to which the staff forced each of the suggestions for use' to yield both practical and psychological satisfactions: the student was of course glad to to find out 'What I can do' with Spanish, but he also had frequent opportunities to be pleased with himself at 'What Ican do!'

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