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Teaching Foreign Languages in Adult Education
Author(s) -
Schoemann Bruno
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.tb02872.x
Subject(s) - memorization , demonstrative , linguistics , grammar , foreign language , repetition (rhetorical device) , reading (process) , action (physics) , computer science , psychology , philosophy , quantum mechanics , physics
We should teach a foreign language in a conversational way, just as we learn to speak our own language, eliminating the memorizing of words, rules of grammar and phonetic sounds. The methods to be used are discussion, demonstrative action, oral reading, repetition, explanation, thereby touching all subjects of daily life and customs of the nation whose language is being taught.