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A Manual Of Self-Instructional Techniques For Learning A Foreign Language, Michael Jerald
A Manual Of Self-Instructional Techniques For Learning A Foreign Language, Michael Jerald
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This paper is meant to serve as a handbook for learning a new language without formal instruction. It started from notes perapared for students in the intensive foreign language classes at the School for International Training who wanted to know what they could do, without taking a formal course, to optimize their continued learning once they got overseas. They had had training in the basic grammatical patterns and pronunciation of the language and had been exposed to a limited amount of vocabulary; their question was one of knowing how to use the envorinment (in the countries to which they were …