Teaching english as a foreign language [antikvár]

PREFACE This is a book for teachers of foreign languages. It discusses many of the problems that they have to face, and it describes methods that have been found effective for each stage of a learner's progress, and it explains the principles underlying them. It is concerned mainly with the teaching of English in schools in environments other than European, and gives prominence to the urgent needs for thorough learning of the language that is the médium of instruction in schools and colleges. But as the principles and many of the methods and techniques of teaching languages are applicable everywhere, teachers of foreign languages in American and European schools will, no doubt, find enough here for them to think about, and enough for them to compare or contrast with their own methods and principles. Somé of the methods and suggestions described here have been adapted or devised in accordance with the results of research in the Gold Coast. I wish to express my gratitude to my helpers there for their criticisms and generous assistance in that research: to Mr. J. H. Andrews, Mr. R. R. Okyne, Mr. C. O. Botchway, Mr. P. Strevens, Mrs. Isabel Hope and Professor C. E. Smith; I alsó welcome this opportunity of thanking all those teachers who have invited me into their classrooms to observe their work and to teach, especially those in Hungary, Finland, Norway and in the large number of schools in the Gold Coast that I visited or that sent in contributions for the research team to study. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Professor C. B. Diltz of the Ontario College of Education for his help in correcting the proofs of this book.