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Language In Education
Author: Michael West

Language in Education By MICHAEL WEST, M. A., D. PHIL. OxoN., I. E. S. Principal of the Teachers College, Dacca. Reader in Education, Dacca University With a Preface by J. J. FINDLAY, M. A., M. Ed., Ph. D. Honorary Professor of Education in the University of Manchester. SECOND EDITION LONGMANS GREEN CO. LTD. 6 Old Court House Street, CALCUTTA 53... more » Nicol Road, . , BOMBAY 36 A Mount Road, . . MADRAS LONDON TORONTO AND NEW YORK 1932 RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED AT THE WESLEYAN MISSION PRESS, MYSORE CITY. PREFACE i Ir 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 investi gate these complex problems at all on Mr. Wests 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 authors point of IV PREFACE view, but we are both of us working in a fielp where co-operation is far more important than to emphasize points of difference. We both of us work and write for students of education, i. e. for teachers who treat the problems of the classroom in a scientific spirit and are concerned sol IjMft iih the search for truth. I must not attempt to discuss the large problems of Psychology and Method which are treated in these chapters, but I want to take this opportunity of emphasizing the underlying philo sophy which I feel sure animates both of us in giving our time and thought to the foreign language problem. We are living in a world where progress depends upon communication, and upon sympathies and understandings which can only be created when men of varying races and of alien speech come to understand each other. The peoples of India must come to understand a little of what England and the British Empire stand for and we, if we are to continue to play a lead ing part in the development of Indian civilization, must take the same pains to understand and appreciate the life of the Indian peoples, through their speech. In Europe the same problem arises, even in a very acute form. It is certain that the English man, the German, the Frenchman and the Russian PREFACE V wifl be immensely helped in coming to terms with each other when trouble is taken to under stand one anothers language. This is the final and sufficient ground for introducing language learning into the schools. We must begin with tii children it is very rarely that a man of mature years reaches a competent power in a foreign language unless he has made a beginning during school years. Books of this type, therefore, are of capital importance, not only for the teaching profession, but for all who care for international peace and goodwill. J. J. FINDLAY. NOTE In preparing this book for a second edition, I have embodied, in two new chapters VI and VII, material originally published in The Modern Language Journal U. S. A., XIV 7 and XV 7 I am grateful to the editor for permission. The discussion of speaking vocabulary given in the new Chapter VII still remains inadequate but I hope to report at a later date the results of experi ments, discussion of which would at this stage be premature. Dacca, M. W. April, 1932. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. APHASIA IN EDUCATION . . . . . . 1 II...

ISBN-13: 9781406728316
ISBN-10: 1406728314
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Goemaere Press
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