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Spanish Instruction by Semidirect Method
Author(s) -
Snow Frank E.
Publication year - 1944
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.1540-4781.1944.tb03878.x
Subject(s) - conquest , linguistics , comprehension , foreign language , first language , mathematics education , psychology , computer science , pedagogy , history , philosophy , ancient history
The present age demands the conquest of the spoken language. An efficient means to obtain this aim is the “semidirect method”: Classes are conducted in the foreign language with convenient interruptions in the student's native tongue to control his comprehension. An outline of this method as used at Quito, Ecuador. Necessary provisions in its adoption with U. S. students.