Review of: A Modern Introductory French Book

• Published in: Journal of educational psychology Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 158 - 160
• Main Author: Kamman, William F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Warwick & York 01-02-1933; American Psychological Association
• Subjects: Foreign Language Education; Foreign Language Learning; Human; Linguistics; Phonetics; Words (Phonetic Units)
• ISSN: 0022-0663; 1939-2176
• DOI: 10.1037/h0066261

Reviews the book "A Modern Introductory French Book" by Henry Dexter Learned (1932). This textbook claims to be "a contribution to modern language teaching," a textbook defending no theory or method, which has grown slowly out of fresh experiments in the laboratory of the actual classroom covering a period of ten years. Account is taken of the latest researches in the field of modern language teaching. The author's aim was to include only the most necessary words which make up a net active list of between six and seven hundred words, "the commonest in the language." According to the reviewer, among the large number of beginning French texts on the market, this book represents something new and different. Furthermore, the reviewer states that on the whole, the book is an excellent piece of work incorporating many new ideas in the technique of teaching beginning French, and will be welcomed by progressive teachers generally.