Fundamentals Of French A Combination Of The Direct And Grammar Methods 1916

Author : Frances R. Angus
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ISBN 13 : 9781332519866
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals Of French written by Frances R. Angus and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fundamentals Of French: A Combination Of The Direct And Grammar Methods The great number of textbooks for elementary French work already in existence makes it necessary to prefix a word of justification and explanation to this new attempt. It will be conceded by most teachers that the problem of French instruction has various sides, the training of the tongue to speak the language, the training of the ear to understand it when spoken, the training of the mind to a reading knowledge of it. The grammatical method of instruction attained the last of those results in a measure, the phonographic and conversational methods attain the former to a limited extent, though the pupil rarely pushes his knowledge beyond the conversational beginnings to familiarity with literary values. The method here presented which I have developed during fifteen years of teaching, after trying and abandoning other methods, has the advantage of attaining all the ends of instruction above proposed with economy of effort and logic of progress. Its eclectic character, its combination of the Direct and the Grammatical methods, will be noted by the teacher examining its series of lessons and the following stories and letters. It allies itself with the conversational method by its use of French in the classroom, thus training the ear and tongue of the student, and giving him the satisfaction of real contact with the life of the language, but English is used at any moment where a construction or idea must be made clear - at any moment, in short, where it is economy of effort to resort to the mother-tongue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.