This book examines a set of manuals devoted to the teaching of the Tayal language, the Tayals being one of the main Aboriginal groups of Taiwan. Analyzing in a systematic way the sound charts and glossaries that this set of manuals offers, Fredric Weingartner allows the reader to better grasp the differences noted from one Tayal dialect to another as well as the development of pedagogy in the teaching of aboriginal languages. In appendix, the book offers the first ever published glossaries of Tayal-Chinese-English and English-Chinese-Tayal.