C'est la guerre? Or Can Cognition and Verbal Behavior Co‐exist in Second Language Learning*

Abstract

A LITTLE more than ten years ago, in September 1959, I completed teaching the applied linguistics course for French, Spanish, and German secondary school teachers at the Foreign Language Summer Institute held at Colgate University. This institute was one of the first three or four summer language institutes in 1959 established under the provisions of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958. During the decade that followed, thousands of secondary school teachers in hundreds of NDEA institutes in the United States and abroad were indoctrinated in audio-