Excerpt from The Teaching of German in Secondary Schools

The following pages represent the outgrowth of experience in high school work, of lectures given to intending teachers, and of a first-hand study of modern language instruction in various parts of Germany. The book is planned to give teachers, in book form, a helpful discussion of the main elements that go to make up a modern language course in secondary schools. Much of the material has long since been common property, perhaps, but has never, to my knowledge, been presented in so detailed a form, with the possible exception of "The Practical Study of Languages," by Sweet, which also serves a different purpose.

This book will have to deal largely with answering two questions:

Firstly, what is the best work we can hope to do in a course extending over a maximum period of four years in the high school?

Secondly, what has experience to teach us as to the best way to do it?

We are still in the experimental stage of language teaching, and probably shall be for some time to come. The time is not ripe for any man to come and say, and scientifically prove, "my method is the method of language teaching." We still lack scientific data with regard to the mental processes involved in learning a foreign language.

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