Fourteen selected speeches dating from 1955 to 1969 cover a broad range of information relevant to the history of language instruction in American schools. A state-of-the-art review of language instruction, written in 1955, precedes papers on: (1) language proficiency; (2) school and college language program cooperation; (3) motion pictures in teacher education; (4) applied educational psychology; (5) teaching methodology; (6) humanizing foreign language instruction; (7) testing of language, culture, and literature; (8) art and mechanics in language instruction; (9) program articulation; (10) teaching culture; and (11) foreign language instruction in Georgia. Many problems and aspects of theory which strongly influenced the development of audiolingual language instruction are discussed in the speeches. (RL)