Situational Reinforcement, a teaching methodology developed out of the cognitive-field theory of learning, is described. It combines many techniques and methods developed over the years. This discussion of it considers common learning problems: (1) boredom, apathy and passivity on the part of the student, (2) the teacher's preoccupation with mistakes and the concomitant inhibition of the student, and (3) the inability of the student to communicate in the target language. The source of these three difficulties is seen as the tendency in our society to divorce learning from real-life experiences. "Situational Reinforcement" is a method of learning various skills by reinforcing ideas and concepts through actually doing those things in real-life situations. It could be called a psycho-motor or kinesthetic approach to learning languages. The disadvantage of the methodology is in the area of testing. However, the method, which is geared to results, attacks the problems outlined above. There is progressive movement from a teacher-centered class toward a student-centered one. There is also progression in the format of the material to be learned in the course of a chapter from the American to the foreign milieu, from one language skill to another, with the emphasis always on personalizing communication. (AMH)