Briefly reviews the past two hundred years of American history and examines the present and the immediate future, in an attempt to identify trends that might have importance in foreign language teaching. (CLK)

Criticizes the predictability of foreign language classroom behavior. Emphasizes the need for innovation and variety in classroom activities in order to get rid of the traditional stereotyped teacher and student roles. (TL)

Critical review of Freeman Twaddell's article, "Uses of Reading', in "The Modern Language", v57 n8 p393-6 Dec 1973. (RL)

Argues that the role of a psychological knowledge must be restricted to the understanding of human learning and that more emphasis should be placed on research knowledge about the second language teaching-learning process, of which there currently is very little. (EKN)

Paper presented at the third meeting of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, April 15-17, 1971, in Detroit, Michigan. Reactor's statement to Florence Steiner's Individualized Instruction", FL 501 691. (DS)