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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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