IN THIS COLLECTION OF THREE ARTICLES, THESE TOPICS ARE COVERED--FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION, TEACHING ALGORITHMS, AND LITERATURE ON PROGRAMED TEACHING. IN THE FIRST STUDY, PROGRAMED LANGUAGE EXERCISES WERE GIVEN IN LANGUAGE LABORATORIES TO HIGH LANGUAGE ABILITY STUDENTS TO TEST THEIR SKILL AT INDEPENDENT WORK. ALTHOUGH THE SMALL EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS SWITCHED FUNCTIONS, AND A COMPARISON OF EACH GROUP'S ERRORS WAS BASED ON TREND DATA, CONCLUSIONS FAVORED DIRECT SPEECH EXERCISES IN THE LABORATORY AND INDEPENDENT WORK WITH PROGRAMED MATERIALS OUTSIDE THE LABORATORY. IN THE SECOND SUMMATION OF EXPERIENCE, IT WAS FOUND THAT SUCCESS IN TEACHING ALGORITHMS WAS DEPENDENT UPON FORESIGHT OF ERRONEOUS ANSWERS. TWO COLLECTIONS OF ARTICLES ON PROGRAMED TEACHING HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED BY THE MOSCOW POWER ENGINEERING INSTITUTE, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, BOTH OF THEM WERE ISSUED IN LIMITED COPIES. THESE ARTICLES WERE TRANSLATED FROM "VESTNIK VYSSHEY SHKOLY," MOSCOW, VOLUME 21, NUMBER 6, JUNE 1963 AND ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE CLEARINGHOUSE FOR FEDERAL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION JOINT PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE, BUILDING TEMPO E, ADAMS DRIVE, 4TH AND 6TH STREETS, S.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20443. (LH)