The language behavior of nine educable retarded children (mean age 12 years) was analyzed before and after a 6-week summer-camp-type activity to test the hypothesis that rate of verbal behavior could be increased through a systematic program in which the children would experience an environmental event and concurrently verbalize the experience.…

An intensive summer Spanish course conducted at the University of Wisconsin in 1965 for graduate social science majors studying in the Latin American area studies program is described. After outlining the details of the experimental course based on the "Modern Spanish" package and discussing its special implications for modern language…

This narrative report of a 1967 summer institute, designed to explore one of the ways of transmitting to future leaders an awareness, understanding, and tolerance for cultural differences in peoples from other nations, describes the relative effectiveness of certain methods, techniques, and procedures used in teaching experimental groups of high…