ABSTRACT
May I offer my cordial congratulations to The Institute for Research in English Teaching on the completion of its first ten years. Ever since the founding of the Institute I have followed its activity with vivid interest and have greatly appreciated those of its publications that I have seen. So far as I know, Japan is the only country in which has been created an Institute dealing actively with problems of this kind, an undertaking which should be of the greatest interest to all civilized nations at a time when international communication and co-operation are more vital than ever before. Let me attempt a classification of these problems, though it must be admitted that the classes cannot be kept neatly apart and that there is a good deal of overlapping among them.
