Contents: Introduction. 1. Physiognomy of the problem. 2. Anatomy of language. 3. Ways of acquisition of language. 4. Laws of language learning. 5. The mother tongue. 6. The place of other languages. 7. Medium of instruction. 8. Language planning. 9. Evaluation. 10. The language student. 11. The language teacher. 12. Ways and means. 13. Return to normalcy. 14. Towards the solution. Epilogue. Sources of opinion. Index.