Author's summary.— Procedures used in the Menlo School and Junior College for speeding up comprehension in silent reading in the foreign languages, illustrated in terms of first semester materials for a beginning high‐school class in Spanish.
This article outlines by semesters the fundamentals of grammar that deserve special stress in the first three years of high school Spanish (ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades) as determined from (1) a survey of current practice and opinion in cities of 365,000 population or over,1 and (2) a regrouping of the grammatical topics (thus derived) in terms of their merit‐ratings in Keniston's Spanish Syntax List.2
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