The Teaching of Modern Foreign Languages in Our Secondary Schools
- ISBN-10
- 1230446826
- ISBN-13
- 9781230446820
- Pages
- 30
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Theclassics.Us
- Author
- Karl Breul
Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... THE TEACHING OF MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN OUR SECONDARY SCHOOLS. The subject which I propose to discuss to-night will certainly not be likened to a smooth and flower-strewn path leading down hill. If it is not exactly a thorny path, it may yet appear to outsiders to be stony, dull, and probably devoid of those beautiful vistas which those who unweariedly climb the upward path have a reasonable hope of beholding in the end. Moreover my lectures must of necessity be somewhat technical, and the limited time at my disposal strictly forbids me to enter some of the by-paths from the main road which often afford no small amount of amusement beside material for very serious reflection. One of these digressions would be a short sketch of the early days of Modern Language teaching, a discussion of the old quaint 'babees bookes' or 'bookes of Curtesy' which sometimes combined teaching of Modern Languages with teaching of good manners'. Another digression would be a discussion of the results frequently obtained by the present system of Modern Language teaching in our Secondary Schools. It has been my lot for more than twelve years to make from time to time a careful study of that very remarkable and ever increasing part of educational literature which is 1 See my edition of the fifteenth century poem ' The Boke of Curtesy" in Kolbing's Englische Studien, 1X. (1885), 51 sqq. r known to the scholastic world by the high-sounding name of 'examination papers.' From these papers and the answers to them one may gather some ideas as to the aims and results of Modern Language teaching--here I refer especially to the teaching of German and French--in our Secondary Schools, and if I were to tabulate my experiences, the results would in some cases be very...
