在亚利桑那州图森市,有700多名该地区的高、初中学生,报名参加了一项自学外语试验,学习的语种有法语、德语、西班牙语、拉丁语和希伯来语。学生通过程序课文和视听教材自己一个人学,也可以在小组里学,进度的快慢视自己的情况而定。由合格的教师和以外语为母语的人组成的管理队,每周和学生个别地商谈两次。据今后十年内的规划所示,参加试验的学生每人每年约花20美元的费用。 In Tucson, Arizona, more than 700 high and middle school students in the region enrolled in a self-taught foreign language test in French, German, Spanish, Latin, and Hebrew. Students through the program text and audio-visual teaching materials themselves a person can also learn in the group, the pace of progress depending on their own circumstances. A management team of qualified teachers and native speakers of foreign language consults twice a week with students individually. According to the plan for the next 10 years, the students participating in the experiment will spend about 20 dollars per person per year.