Experimental data -- Acquisition and retention of sentence-meaning -- Imitation -- The printed word -- Oral reading -- The written word -- Contact frequency: IQ and age -- Foreign-language learning and teaching -- The indirect method -- The direct method -- Eclectic methods -- The bilingual method -- The grammar school -- The spoken word -- Foreign culture -- The written word -- Homework -- Internal examinations -- Course books -- Foreign-language medium -- The primary (junior) school -- The infant school -- The secondary-modern school -- Aids -- The tape recorder -- The language laboratory -- Audio-visual aids -- Pattern progression -- Typology of exercises