Language in Education [antikvár]

PREFACE Mr. Michael West has asked me to introduce his work to the public by a few words of Preface, and I do so with great pleasure. I take it that in India he is already well known through his earlier work, called Bilingualism, and the textbooks which he has produced to enable the Indian children to learn English; but even in India I hope that, by the publication of this book, his work will receive still more attention. For I know no one, either in the East or in the West, who has devoted so much energy to experimental work and research; no one, indeed, who has envisaged the problem in the same thorough and careful manner as Mr. West. In Europe, indeed, he is, as yet, scarcely known, and yet his methods of study are of equal value for application to any foreign language. I write as one who has not attempted to investigate these complex problems at all on Mr. West's lines; the ventures which I have made approach the problem from a very different point of view. For this very reason I am glad to be associated with this book. In regard to some matters I differ rather widely from the author's point of