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- Title
Comments on the Survey of Language Classes in the ASTP.
- Authors
Herman, Abraham
- Abstract
The pronounced excellence of the results is not based on satisfactory, objective proof, notably in the case of speaking. 2. The results obtained by the different categories of trainees are not clearly distinguished. 3. Anxious as we are to know what real beginners have accomplished, the category of trainees without any 'previous recognizable experience in hearing or speaking' cannot serve as a criterion. 4. In reading, more is made of the role of transfer than of the fact that in a good many institutions there was considerable training in this aspect of language study. 5. There is nothing suprising in the fact that trainees who had previously studied the language achieved a rather good reading knowledge, we cannot, however, be sure that the true beginners learned to read 'with considerable facility'. 6. The superiority of intensive practice over distributed practice is not an established fact.
- Subjects
FOREIGN language education; NON-military education of military personnel
- Publication
Modern Language Journal, 1945, Vol 29, Issue 6, p487
- ISSN
0026-7902
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-4781.1945.tb00303.x