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What Shall the Aims of Foreign Language Teaching Be in the Light of Recent Experience? *
Author(s) -
Huebener Theodore
Publication year - 1945
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.1540-4781.1945.tb00292.x
Subject(s) - foreign language , institution , psychology , pedagogy , mathematics education , medical education , linguistics , sociology , medicine , social science , philosophy
Author's summary.— In view of the unselected student‐body and the limited time, the high school foreign language course could not successfully pursue the “conversational aim.” The school is primarily an educational institution and not a training camp. Only a broad cultural aim, with adequate provision for oral practice for the gifted, is valid.