Excerpt from The Teaching of Foreign Languages: Principles and Methods
The main object of this work is to supply a clear statement, illustrated by examples from experience, of the principles that underlie the teaching of a living foreign language, for they alone can supply the necessary standards by which to measure the relative value of the various methods it is possible to adopt. It is hoped that the book may also prove useful to the student of methods by giving him starting points for further research. To this end several of the problems that need investigation have been indicated. Among the most pressing may here be mentioned: (1) the best method of teaching foreign literature, (2) and composition; (3) the teaching of pronunciation in detail; (4) the application of the oral method to the teaching of grammar and vocabulary. Each of these subjects supplies in itself matter for an important monograph.
An account of a tentative beginning in the experimental method applied to the teaching of foreign languages has been given in the form of an Addendum.
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