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The Incompetent Student Raises a Problem for the Language Teacher
Author(s) -
Keating L. Clark
Publication year - 1937
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1937.tb00551.x
Subject(s) - action (physics) , mathematics education , foreign language , psychology , order (exchange) , linguistics , pedagogy , philosophy , business , physics , finance , quantum mechanics
Author's Summary.— The performance of many students is poorest in foreign language because it is here that their inability to use and comprehend words as instruments of thought is most felt. The effect on the other college courses of a large number of linguistic defectives is such that concerted action seems to be necessary in order to maintain academic standards.