Presenting minimal pairs in context to the student of English as a foreign language requires him to discriminate between two phonemes that may sound the same. Methodology for student exercises with minimal sentences is presented. (SW)

A test comparing two groups of beginning learners of English as a second language shows that teaching listening comprehension accompanied by prescribed gestures - "total physical response" - instead of speech production, provides better language acquisition than conventional methods, as well as less anxiety and higher motivation for…