Teaching A Quarterly Technical Journal for Teachers December 1932

This led us to the size of the plot the decision about which required some knowledge of the50 A SUGGESTION FROM THE PROJECT METHOD laws and bye-laws of the town municipality restricting the building to one-fourth the size of the plot. [...] The practical teacher has to take things as they are and in a country where English is the only medium of communication between the various language areas the language of Government and the legislatures where a command of English opens the door to higher general and professional education or to a career in business or a public department it cannot be denied that it is the duty of the schools t [...] The old Translation-Grammar method with its insistence on translation and grammar was everywhere abandoned in favour of a method which it was claimed would produce increased correctness and fluency of expression in English.54 TEACHING THE USE OF ENGLISH The quotations at the head of this paper the resolution of the InteUniversity Board and we believe the experience of thinking teachers [...] The study of the Reader occupies the bulk of the time assigned to English and in theory at least the Reader is the `centre' of and provides the material for the development of vocabulary the study of grammar and oral and written composition. [...] And the conscious organization of the facts of language means first the selection of such facts of language as serve best the ordinary and common needs of the learner who has to use the language ; second the arranging and grading of these facts in order of importance and difficulty.