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THE NEW STUDENT'S REFERENCE WORK

b.   The two general problems in language teaching:    1026.

(1)   To 'extend child's power to use language.

(2)   To correct his language errors.

c.   Experience at base of all language work:

(1)   Varieties of experience to be worked with:    1026.

(2)   What good language work does for child experience: 1026-7.

d.   Method in oral and written language:   1027.

(1)   Means suggested to assist written work.

(2)   How the teacher may improve the oral English of pupils:

(a)   Encourage children to speak freely on interesting sub-

jects.

(b)   Incidental suggestions correcting mistakes when made.

(c)   Get pupils to give conscious attention to  forms of

speech.

(3)   Formal correction of language errors in upper grades: 1027.

(a)   Steps in formal correction:

1.   Errors recognized.

2.   Correct form determined by means of grammar.

3.   Correct form made habitual by drill.

e.   Grammar:

(1)   Formal grammar not so important as formerly: 1027, 790.

(2)   Dependence for correct English on correct use without many

rules:   1027.

(3)   Lack of formal grammar in first six years of school:   1027,

790.

(4)   Grammar in the seventh and eighth grades:    1027, 791.

(a)   Pupils  usage  made  the  basis  for  inductive  study:

1027, 791.

(b)   Mainly a matter of classification essential to guidance

of oral and written expression:   1027.

(c)   Language treated as an art, not a science:   1027.

f.   Foreign languages:    1027, 791.

(1)   Oral work:   1028.

(2)   Written composition:    1028.

5. METHOD IN THE TEACHING OF MANUAL TRAINING:

a.   What manual training in the wide sense includes:    1162.

(1)   Shop and desk work.

(2)   Domestic  science.

(3)   Domestic art.

b.   Value in manual training:

(1)   Giving of useful skill and knowledge:    1163.

(a)   Commercial value of manual dexterity.

(2)   Development of motor control:    1163.

(3)   Development of observation and judgment:    1163.

(4)   Values on artistic side:    1163.

(5)   Object of stick laying, paper folding, tracing, clay modelling

and weaving:   1164. C.  Desk and shop work:

(1)   Desk work in early grades:    1163.

(a)   Use of ordinary desks:    1165.

(b)   Wlorking outline lessons for 23 weeks:    1164.

(c)   Basketry:    179.

(d)   Drawing:    551.

(2)   Shop  work in upper grades:

(a)   Materials used:    1165.

(b)   Tools required:    1163, 1165. <L  Domestic Art:    542.

(1)   What is included in domestic art.

(2)   Special values in the subject.

(3)   The development of taste and skill. e.  Domestic Science:

(1)  Branches taught:    542.

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