This report presents detailed, nonevaluative descriptions of instructional methods used in a sample of outstanding language training centers. Together these 19 different training programs represent a student age range from subteen to adult. Included are both intensive and nonintensive, military and civilian, and governmental and nongovernmental programs. For each program, the report presents fairly detailed description of such features as (1) training objectives, (2) methods of teaching phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, (3) language laboratory activities, (4) student evaluation procedures, and (5) faculty characteristics. Fifteen of the 19 programs were characterized by their respective officials as adhering to the audiolingual method. The report includes copies of an interview guide, a training techniques checklist, a classroom observation guide, and a 37-item bibliography. (AF)