The Progress of Education. May 1927

The Use of the Foreign Medium in Oral Claswork By the Boys The motive in requiring the boy to answer orally in the class in the foreign tongue is to give him practice in speaking. [...] The use of the foreign medium by the teacher has the advantage of accustoming the boy to the sound of the foreign language. [...] In schools the use of the foreign medium by the teacher in his discourse is not as in the University :a matter of actual necessity but it is perhaps used with the idea of giving practice in following instruction in the foreign medium to those boys who will go on to the University and of giving a training to all in the understanding of English speech. [...] No absolute figure is of course possible since the effect of the foreign medium must necessarily vary according to the profciency of the class in the foreign language the nature of the lesson which is being taught and the skill of the teacher. [...] The purpose of the day is to teach in the schools the lesson of friendship and good-will to the children of the world.