The Principles of Language-Study

by Harold E. Palmer

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Préface Dédicatoire	[5]
	Synopsis	[13]
I.	Our Spontaneous Capacities for acquiring Speech	[33]
II.	Our Studial Capacities and how to use them	[47]
III.	Why we must use our Studial Capacities	[52]
IV.	The Student and his Aim	[60]
V.	The Supreme Importance of the Elementary Stage	[68]
VI.	The Principles of Language-teaching	[75]
VII.	Initial Preparation	[82]
VIII.	Habit-forming and Habit-adapting	[98]
IX.	Accuracy	[106]
X.	Gradation	[113]
XI.	Proportion	[123]
XII.	Concreteness	[129]
XIII.	Interest	[136]
XIV.	A Rational Order of Progression	[148]
XV.	The Multiple Line of Approach	[161]
XVI.	‘Memorized Matter’ and ‘Constructed Matter’	[170]
	Index	[183]

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