A New Indonesian Textbook from Australia

Elementary instruction in modern foreign languages at the university level in the United States is very different now from what it was before the second world war when, despite the pioneering contributions to teaching the spoken language by figures like Henry Sweet, Otto Jespersen, and Michael West, foreign language instruction still consisted largely of grammar and translation to prepare the student to study the literature of the language and the civilization it reflected. Yet except for the specialist it was the unusual student who from this training learned a foreign language well enough to use it effectively even in reading.