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Languages and the War 1
Author(s) -
Danton George H.
Publication year - 1943
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.1540-4781.1943.tb00262.x
Subject(s) - mistake , criticism , curriculum , linguistics , ap french language , mathematics education , pedagogy , language education , history , psychology , literature , political science , art , philosophy , law
Author's summary.— Criticism has been made of the lack of accomplishment in modern languages and this lack of accomplishment has been said to be the reason why students are not interested. Our enemies do not make the mistake of devoting too little time to the study of modern languages and beginning them too late. Modern language teachers have been asked to do an impossible thing. They have been asked to do in two years, at three hours per week, what European students get in many years' study, beginning very early in the school curriculum. We cannot teach people to speak, read and write a language in the time allotted to us.