Earl W. Stevick

“ The experience of this training program demonstrated certain advantages of the cluster format:
It was fairly easy to coordinate the presentation of a particular cluster with the ongoing cross-cultural or technical program. The language coordinator felt that clusters could as easily have been devised for most other kinds of basic material with which she was familiar. Clusters made the staff confident and aware of how much of the culture and the technical details they could explore even as early as the second week (i.e. after 50 hours of instruction) . ”

“ Use of clusters at the end of the day aroused the attention and enthusiasm of the trainees for something they were curious about and interested in. The very loose format helped the instructors to see how they were able to use different clusters or parts of clusters with different groups or single trainees. ”

“ In the Brazil phase, they more commonly took the form of group discussion or individual reports about the trainees' real interactions with local people, for which the other parts of the cluster had helped to prepare them. ”