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Time Allotment for Foreign‐Language Study: Internecine Competition or Conciliatory Compromise
Author(s) -
Tharp James B.
Publication year - 1941
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.1540-4781.1941.tb03067.x
Subject(s) - compromise , allotment , foreign language , amateur , curriculum , language arts , the arts , subject (documents) , sociology , competition (biology) , pedagogy , principal (computer security) , economic justice , damages , mathematics education , psychology , political science , law , social science , economics , ecology , library science , computer science , market economy , biology , operating system
Author's Summary— Educationists and administrators criticize foreign language study as offering little value to most American pupils; foreign language teachers protest in resolutions and demand more time. Enrollments are studied in public and private secondary schools; in 1200 rural schools in comparison with other subjects. A school principal plans his curriculum to do justice to competing subject areas. “General education” versus special subjects; general science and general language. Foreign language study should compete, not on a utilitarian basis, but as a language “art.” As such, like other arts, there may well be appreciation courses for non‐performers, limited‐objective courses for amateur performers and all the traffic can bear for artist performers.)