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“Let's Get on Speaking Terms with Our Neighbors”
Author(s) -
Downs John A.
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.tb03113.x
Subject(s) - compromise , frontier , foreign language , wish , reading (process) , linguistics , democracy , psychology , sociology , mathematics education , political science , philosophy , social science , law , politics , anthropology
Author's Summary— Respect for traditional methods of language instruction, misinterpretation of democratic education, and “Frontier Psychology” have led us into the compromise of the “Reading Knowledge” objective. If teachers of foreign languages wish to make their contribution to international amity they must emphasize first of all the spoken language. We must be on speaking terms with our neighbors.