Author: Peter Roberts

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781330178904

Excerpt from English for Coming Americans: A Rational System for Teaching English to Foreigners During the last year I visited many Associations in the eastern and middle states of the Union, and cooperated with secretaries in organizing classes among foreigners. In every Association the educational director or teacher repeatedly asked me: "How can we teach these men? Give us some system by which we can do the work." To meet such demand, this manual is issued. Francois Gouin's book, "The Art of Teaching and Studying Languages," furnished me the basic idea which is worked out herein. His reasoning in defense of oral instruction as the first step in teaching boys a new language is irrefutable. I have applied this to the work of teaching English to adult foreigners in North America and the result of my experience in twelve different states is extremely gratifying. To trust the ear before the eye and the hand are called into activity is rational and true to nature. To lead the foreigner to pronounce simple phrases in English interests him and inspires the teacher. By this method the learner gets from a man whose mother tongue is English correct pronunciation and correct enunciation. The foreigner is interested, for he begins to talk in the very first lesson and each time he comes to the classroom he learns something new. As he proceeds in the course his interest is sustained as he recognizes, under new relations, words and phrases with which he wrestled in former lessons. 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.