Everyday Language Lessons: Practical English for New Americans (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Everyday Language Lessons: Practical English for New Americans

The aim of this book is to supply, or to suggest, to th'é teachers of adult New Americans in the evening schools material wherewith to teach their pupils in a reasonably short time, and in a practicable manner, to speak, read, and write the English language.

The primacy of the need to converse is especially recognized and considered. This need is met by train ing the pupils in the correct use of the words, expres sions, and sentences that are interwoven with their environments. Instruction begins with object lessons pertaining to objects and interests in the schoolroom, and these are appropriately followed with lessons involving consideration of vocational matters, the home, and other conditions and interests in the life of a New American. These lessons are all constructed with the main purpose of using them as drills for con versation, the teacher being reminded at every lesson to use text for conversation. Examples of ques tions, to be put to the pupils, are given occasionally, illustrating the method of introducing and encouraging conversation covering the texts.

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