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The Main Objective in the Study of Foreign Languages
Author(s) -
Greiner Otto A.
Publication year - 1938
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.1540-4781.1938.tb06535.x
Subject(s) - german , foreign language , linguistics , object (grammar) , computer science , product (mathematics) , language education , sociology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , mathematics , geometry
Author's Summary— The main objective in modern foreign language study today should be to become intelligent about language. What was once the by‐product should become the main object of pursuit. While the student is becoming intelligent about language, he can be learning some German, French, or Spanish, and other things.)