How Shall We Train the Teacher of Modern Languages?

of the big numbers of Art. 39 students that made its publication particularly desirable, that, and the comparatively short time allotted to the special training in the college time-tables: thirty hours' lecturing with, in addition, practice in teaching under supervision for Chap. V; ten hours' lecturing, possibly to be increased to fifteen, with supervised practice in teaching, but with not nearly the same amount of specialist supervision, nor the same standard of academic attainment, for the Art. 39 candidates. All these circumstances conspired to the happy result that these notes and bibliographies, which used to be slowly dictated, can now be submitted to the student through the medium of the printed page, and the time so gained can be utilized for the discussion of some phonetic and linguistic problems as well as of method.

No attempt has been made to deal with general method in the following pages, for there are many books of the kind, although some poaching is inevitable. Of books on specific Modern Language Method from the point of view of the student in training, the writer of these lines knows but few. This work lays no claim to any merit greater than that of providing an original, and, it is hoped, a useful compilation of facts and sources of information. Permission has been asked, whenever that was possible; but author and publisher crave the indulgence of any whom they may have unwittingly offended, and the author would be most grateful for any useful additions and corrections.

THE TRAINING CENTRE,
ST. ANDREW STREET,

ABERDEEN.

E. H. A. ROBSON.

Acknowledgments.

I HAVE to tender my most hearty thanks to all those of my friends who have helped me in my study of foreign language and life; in connection with this book, to my sister, to that veteran, James Hart, my uncle, to my old friend, Frau Dr. Margarete Henschke, to my young friend, Mademoiselle Clarisse Doysié, all of whom were kind enough to read the proofs, and to Madame Vitoux, Dr. Marie L. Barker, Herrn und Frau Professor Dr. F. Behrend, and Herrn und Frau Horst Klien, who procured for me in the difficult post-war period many of the books recommended in the following pages. For the opinions expressed, however, I take sole responsibility, as for the information offered.

Thanks are also due to Miss Riach for drawing my attention to the lapsus calami, to Miss Ellen C. Higgins for putting me on the track of the Gulliver quotation, and to Professor McClelland for the American Tests, to Monsieur René Lalou for help with the list of French school stories, to Professor Bonnard for recommending Les Chansons de nos Grand' mêres, to General-superintendent Dr. Otto Dibelius for the information about the Prussian Order of Service as well as

To the Secretary of the University of Edinburgh, for permission to use extracts from The Regulations, University of Edinburgh, Faculty of Arts.

To the Controller, H.M. Stationery Office, for S.R. and C., 1926, No. 954, and S.R. and C., 1924, No. 791, S. 61.

To Messrs. Bowes & Bowes, and to the Representatives of the late J. K. Stephen for permission to include the "Triolets Ollendorfiens" from "Lapsus Calami."

To the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press for permission to reprint two paragraphs from The Teaching of Modern Foreign Languages and the Training of Teachers, by Karl Breul, Schröder Professor of German in the University of Cambridge. To Professor Sir John Adams and Mr. George G. Harrap, for two extracts from Adams, Herbartian Psychology.

To Miss Nora S. Heald and Mrs. H. Pearl Adam for the list of French children's books from the Queen. To the librairie A. Colin for the excerpts from BrunotBony, Nouvelle Méthode de langue française. To the J. G. Cotta 'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger for permission to quote p. 97 from the late Friedrich Paulsen's book Aus meinen Leben.

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