The Organization of Language

Series: Principles and Methods of Teaching a Second Language Series

Duration: 33

Year Published: 1961

Creator: Teaching Film Custodians

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Demonstrates that children can use the forms and arrangements of words to convey meaning and the grammar of a language, not only before they learn to read and write, but also before they go to school. Shows how children everywhere learn this organizational pattern through oral experiences. Features an experiment in which children without instruction apply regular grammatical rules to nonsense words and shows a class in German being taught to English speakers which shows how grammatical forms and their variations are taught by modern methods.


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