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A New Approach to Checking Outside Reading
Author(s) -
Geiger Karola
Publication year - 1939
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.1540-4781.1939.tb02868.x
Subject(s) - german , reading (process) , simple (philosophy) , linguistics , foreign language , computer science , mathematics education , psychology , philosophy , epistemology
By answering simple questions in German which were used to check outside reading from the beginning of the second and also from the second half of the first semester on, the students arrived at compositions which avoided the usual excessive amount of beginners' errors and expressed themselves more freely in the foreign language.)