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Excerpt from How to Teach a Foreign Language
When, in accordance with a wish expressed by English and American friends, I determined to have my Sprag undemz''sm''ng translated into English, I found it difiicult to decide what to retain and what to leave out of the original. So much of what I had written appeared to me to apply more or less exclusively to Danish schools and Danish methods, and I had too little personal ex perience of the practice of English teachers or of English school-books to be quite sure of the advisability in each case of including or excluding this or that remark. I have. However, made my choice to the best of my ability, and if some parts of my criticism are not altogether applicable to English methods, I hope I may be excused on the plea that what is now the really important thing is less the destruction of bad old methods than a positive indication of the new ways to be followed if we are to have thoroughly efficient teaching in modern languages.
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When, in accordance with a wish expressed by English and American friends, I determined to have my Sprag undemz''sm''ng translated into English, I found it difiicult to decide what to retain and what to leave out of the original. So much of what I had written appeared to me to apply more or less exclusively to Danish schools and Danish methods, and I had too little personal ex perience of the practice of English teachers or of English school-books to be quite sure of the advisability in each case of including or excluding this or that remark. I have. However, made my choice to the best of my ability, and if some parts of my criticism are not altogether applicable to English methods, I hope I may be excused on the plea that what is now the really important thing is less the destruction of bad old methods than a positive indication of the new ways to be followed if we are to have thoroughly efficient teaching in modern languages.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Otto Jespersen
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780331590180
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm
Page Count - 206
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Otto Jespersen
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781333916701
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm
Page Count - 208
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