This paper offers suggestions about the content and organization of a foreign language methods course. It begins with a list of basic skills that must be taught: (1) directing a pattern drill, (2) teaching a concrete word, (3) teaching an abstract word, (4) teaching a short dialogue, (5) teaching a contrastive structure in morphology and syntax, (6) developing and using grammatical generalizations, (7) teaching the initial steps of reading, and (8) presenting culture capsules. The methods course described here is divided into three phases. The first phase has the student micro-teaching his peer group. During the second phase the methods students micro-teach students of high school or junior high school age. The final phase puts the methods student in an authentic practice-teaching situation at the college level. After each phase an oral self-evaluation is solicited from each student teacher, and the members of the class just taught are also asked to give feedback about the methods student. Several other activities that might be included in the methods course are recommended here: (1) materials evaluation, (2) constructing learning activity packets, (3) writing tests, (4) working with interaction analysis, (5) employing the media, (6) developing visual packages, (7) writing instructional objectives, (8) student projects, and (9) lectures by professionals in the field of education. (PMP)