THE CONSTRUCTION, REVISION, AND STANDARDIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL IN GERMAN IS DISCUSSED IN THIS REPORT AFTER CONSIDERATION IS GIVEN TO THE METHODS AND GOALS CONNECTED WITH THE PRODUCTION OF LANGUAGE MATERIAL. THE ROLE OF RESEARCHERS, AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS, TEACHERS, AND STUDENTS IN DEVELOPING COURSE MATERIAL IS OUTLINED. DESCRIPTIONS ARE GIVEN OF EXPERIMENTS THAT WERE CONDUCTED TO DEAL WITH CONTROVERSIES OVER (1) TEXTBOOK USE, (2) AUDIO-ACTIVE-COMPARE LANGUAGE LABORATORY USE, (3) THE NEED FOR ONE- OR TWO-LANGUAGE EXPLANATIONS OF WORDS, AND (4) STUDENT ATTITUDES TOWARDS DIFFERENT CLASSROOM METHODS. FIVE GOAL ANALYSES IN THE PLANNING STAGE AND WORK METHODS TO BE INTEGRATED INTO THE COURSE MATERIAL ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. THIS DOCUMENT APPEARED AS "SCHOOL RESEARCH NEWSLETTER (STOCKHOLM)," NUMBER 3, 1967. (AF)