The Method Of Teaching Modern Languages In Germany

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...contains various historical and biographical sketches, not omitting the Queen's Jubilee. This book also, like Dr Kiihn's Lesebuch, is attractively illustrated with suitable woodcuts. There is naturally a strong tendency to illustrate the Realien V in various ways. So much is this the case that at first one is liable to be misled into the supposition that Realien are the illustrations used to make the life and habits of the foreign nation more real to the pupils. Realien do not, however, consist; in objects, maps, pictures, etc. THey are rather the national y facts or "realities" which these illustrate. Dr Breul, in a lecture on the Training of Teachers of Modern Foreign Languages, delivered to the College of Preceptors (nth April, 1894) 1 Reprinted, by Professor Vietor's special request, in Die Neueren Sprachen, Band II. pp. 424 sqq. and 585 sqq. having already appeared in the Educational Times, May 1, 1894. defines Realien as "illustraHyJdcts andjstudies, comprising a study of foreign life and "thought, customs and institutions at different periods, to be partly acquired abroad by personal examination. The chief auxiliary studies are: history, geography." There is no doubt as to the importance and utility of this Sachunterricht, but I more than once heard German teachers express the opinion that it is a little over-done now-a-days. "What do German boys want to know about English football, etc.?" And, indeed, I found that Tom Brown's Schooldays is not so well known in German schools as St Winifred's. Nevertheless, wherever I came across the teaching of Realien, I always noticed that it increased the interest and zeal of teacher and pupils alike. In many schools they have ample means of teaching English...

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