Year: | 1917 | |
Short description: | Skidmore's article "The Direct Method" | |
Medium description: | Skidmore's paper read to the Romance Section of Modern Language Association, Chicago in December 1916 published as an article entitled "The Direct Method". Skidmore presents answers received to his list of 16 questions about the direct method sent to 140 members of the MLA in schools and colleges throughout the USA. The first 2 questions are not given but are described as seeking for a definition of the the direct method. The remaining questions are: III What do you consider the strongest argument in favor of the direct method? IV What do you put as the chief objection to the direct method? V Do you favor the adoption of the direct method in college classes? VI In secondary schools? VII In both? VIII If in one, why not in both? IX Are you opposed to the direct method in both? X Are you now using the direct method? XI Do you contemplate adopting the direct method? XII What, in your opinion, is the principal aim, for the average student, of a course in a modern language? XIII What method do you think most aids in the realization of this aim? XIV To what extent is your attitude to the direct method influenced by America's geographical isolation? XV Is there anything else you would like to say on the direct method? XVI Are you willing to be quoted as for or against the direct method? | |
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