This volume, one in a series on applied linguistics and language instruction, contains five articles dealing with teaching methods and linguistic course content. The articles, particularly germane to the teaching of French, include: (1) "The Relation of Linguistic Analysis to Foreign-Language Teaching," by Simon Belasco; (2) "The French Pronouns of Direct Address," by Catherine A. Maley; (3) The Sequential Drilling Method: An Organizing Concept for Classroom Drills," by Robert A. Morrey; (4) "A Syntactic Classification of French Verbs as a Basis for Monostructural Presentation at the Beginning Level," by Michael D. Oates; and (5) "Language Variation and the Teaching of French," by Albert Valdman. (RL)