Language as a Means of Mental Culture and International Communication: Or, Manual of the Teacher, and the Learner of Languages, Volume 2

Chapman and Hall, 1853 - Foreign Language Study - 432 pages

Knowledge of words	17

CHAPTER II	49

Mode of learning words for speaking and writing	60

Of verbsMode of learning them	62

Of the practical application of verbs to the expression of ideas	65

Of learning the words of a Vocabulary	66

Of the composition of a Vocabulary	70

Synonymy	72

SECT	211

CHAPTER II	215

BOOK XI	245

Translation from a foreign into the native tongue	249

Translation and original essays in the native tongue compared	253

Directions for translating into the native tongue	256

Retranslation into the foreign language	261

Mode of correction	264

Figurative expressions	78

BOOK VIII	83

Of the first books to be read III Facilities to be afforded to beginners IV Of explanations in introductory books V Interlineal translations Dumarsais m...	85

HOW TO READ I Mode of proceeding Necessity of much practice	102

Instruction to be imparted by the professor	106

Exercise of the mind in interpreting the foreign text	110

On the use of Dictionaries	112

Difference in the modes of proceeding with adults and children	116

Of the partial reading of works	119

Mental reading and translation	121

Benefits of oral translation	126

Of the second reading of books	129

Of Reading and writing as means of recollection	132

WHAT TO READ	134

The course of reading dependent on the end proposed	142

BOOK IX	149

Exercises in hearing in imitation of the process of nature	156

Benefits of mental audition	165

Mode of acquiring the pronunciation accent and prosody	175

Of treatises and dictionaries of pronunciation	182

Oral readingas a means of acquiring the pronunciation	188

Comparative difficulty of reading French and English	196

CHAPTER I	199

Poetical doubletranslation Choice of a modelbook	267

CHAPTER II	270

1 Dictation vocabulary learning and correction of false spelling objected	278

Modes of acquiring orthography	282

CHAPTER III	284

Imitative compositions III Original essays	286

Assistance to be given by the teacher	291

Prejudicial effects of unrestrained indulgence in foreign composition	295

Of the simultaneous study and knowledge of several	299

Of	319

102	349

On the insufficiency and unreasonable length of classical	359

On British Universities by various writers	368

Tables of properties perceivable by the senses	376

284	381

Educational apparatus	382

Phonetical slips for teaching to read	390

Course of French reading	397

A Diatonic table of the French elementary vocal sounds	405

On Latin exercises and themes by various writers	411

192	412

295	413

106	414

Title	Language as a Means of Mental Culture and International Communication: Or, Manual of the Teacher, and the Learner of Languages, Volume 2 Language as a Means of Mental Culture and International Communication: Or, Manual of the Teacher, and the Learner of Languages, Claude Marcel
Author	Claude Marcel
Publisher	Chapman and Hall, 1853
Original from	the New York Public Library
Digitized	7 Aug 2008
ISBN	0608352330, 9780608352336
Length	432 pages
Subjects	Foreign Language Study › General Foreign Language Study / General

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