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I wish first to acknowledge a long-standing debt to the late Arnold E. Irwin, my first teacher in a commonly-taught language, and to the late Edouardo Mondlane, who first introduced me to a seldom-taught one, each of whom taught me language and more than language.

I would also like to express my gratitude to the deans of neglected-language teaching in this country, Bee and Bill Welmers, who over the years have not only pointed the way, but have also cleared much of it with their own hands.

Three Directors of Language Training for the United States Peace Corps have contributed to this project: Allan M. Kulakow by introducing me to International Volunteer Training; John M. Francis by asking the right questions; and Robert J. Rebert by testing some of these answers.

Caleb Gattegno, through intermittent contacts and particularly in a workshop which I attended in February of 1971, has caused me to see all teaching in a new light.

For five years, John A. Rassias of Dartmouth College and I have been adversary-accomplices, each in our frequent meetings reminding the other of that half of our craft which he would most likely forget.

Ronald A. C. Goodison and Panagiotis S. Sapountzis of the Foreign Service Institute, by example and by precept upon precept, have kept me from being satisfied with the direction in which I was going.