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The Fundamental Objectives of Foreign Language Study
Author(s) -
Wann Harry V.
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.tb00580.x
Subject(s) - vitality , harmony (color) , foreign language , curriculum , mathematics education , orchestration , psychology , sociology , linguistics , pedagogy , philosophy , art , literature , visual arts , musical , theology
Author's Summary.— Foreign language study is under fire not because it lacks intrinsic values, but because educationists question its objectives. The objectives of experienced language teachers are, however, in full harmony with those of their critics, who fail to realize that orchestration is a far more effective stimulant to their attainment than any experimental integration which would attempt to diffuse vitality over a whole curriculum, while prostituting the talents of the master teacher to the uses of an arbitrary, pre‐digested program.