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Rh John P. Milon, chief language coordinator for a Peace Corps training program in Micronesia in the summer of 1970, and the district language coordinators in the same program, with whenwhom [sic] I worked on ways of adapting a wide variety of existing materials: Elmer Asher of Kusai, Gary Crawford for Yap, Lino Olopai of Saipan, Ewalt Joseph and Damian Sohl of Ponape, Moses Samwel of the Marshalls, and Sochiki Stephen of Truk. All of these except Crawford had also been participants in the 1969 workshop. Milon later contributed additional comments based on his work in teaching English to small children in Hawaii;

Loren Nussbaum, a veteran materials developer at the Center for Applied Linguistics;

Mary Nussbaum, who arranged for me to discuss the central ideas of this chapter with teachers of English as a Foreign Language in a workshop which she had organized in Northern Virginia;

The language faculty of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, particularly Ted Plaister, Byron Bender, Donald M. Topping, Charles Blatchford, Ruth Crymes and Kenneth Jackson; Richard Day allowed me to discuss an early draft with his staff of TESL teachers and relayed some of their reactions to me;

Laurence and Terry Thompson, who commented on these ideas from the point of view of linguists working with Indians of the Pacific Northwest;

J. V. Powell, a graduate student who was planning a program for young Quileutes who want to learn their tribal language;

Anita Politano, language teacher and trainer of teachers in Hilo, Hawaii;

Kenneth L. Rehg, former language specialist for the Peace Corps in Ponape and currently a graduate student at the University of Hawaii, who made many comments over a long period of time;

J. Richard Reid, Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages at Clark University, both as a language teacher and as a trainer of teachers;

John M. Thiuri, one of the best language instructors I have seen or heard of, who teaches Swahili at the Foreign Service Institute;