The Oral Method of Teaching Languages - A Monograph on Conversational Methods, Together With a Full Description and Abundant, Examples of Fifty Appropriate Forms of Work #223254

A few months ago, when I was busy correcting the proofs of my Principles of Language Study, one of my colleagues asked me why that book Should not be followed up by one to be entitled How to Conduct a Conversation Course. He went on to say that the demand for language-lessons on a conversational basis was rapidly increasing, not only in England, but all over the world — and that there was apparently not a single book yet in existence which gave clear and precise indica tions to teachers as to how such a course Should be con ducted it was left to each individual teacher to work out his own system, good, bad or indifferent.