How to Teach a Foreign Language (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Otto Jespersen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0331590182 ISBN 13: 9780331590180

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from How to Teach a Foreign Language<br/><br/>When, in accordance with a wish expressed by English and American friends, I determined to have my Sprag undemz'sm'ng translated into English, I found it difiicult to decide what to retain and what to leave out of the original. So much of what I had written appeared to me to apply more or less exclusively to Danish schools and Danish methods, and I had too little personal ex perience of the practice of English teachers or of English school-books to be quite sure of the advisability in each case of including or excluding this or that remark. I have. However, made my choice to the best of my ability, and if some parts of my criticism are not altogether applicable to English methods, I hope I may be excused on the plea that what is now the really important thing is less the destruction of bad old methods than a positive indication of the new ways to be followed if we are to have thoroughly efficient teaching in modern languages....

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About the Author

Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) was professor of English at the University of Copenhagen. Among his many works in "Growth and Structure of the English Language," also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0331590182
• ISBN 13: 9780331590180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 210