Annotated Bibliography of Modern Language Methodology—June, 1941—June, 1942

Teaching the Romance Languages: French, Spanish, Italian

“…French, Spanish, Italian OTTO F. BOND, with the assistance of JAMES BABCOCK, HILDA NORMAN, and LAWRENCE ANDRUS THE TRIENNIUM ending December 1942 showed no lessening in the amount of reportage of opinion and investigation in foreign language teaching, if the 905 items listed by Tharp (140,141,142) in his annual bibliographies are a fair index. A certain truculence and a defensive attitude mark the majority of these reports, partly because the major concern of foreign language teachers during this period was with the threat to the place of their subjectmatter in the common school curriculum.…”

“…For the triennium 1939-42, one should consult the indispensable annotated bibliographies of modern language methodology prepared or edited annually by Tharp (140,141,142), the current issues of the Education Index, and the Encyclopedia of Educational Research. For doctoral theses in modern foreign languages in 1938-39, see Doyle (39); only a few researchers were concerned with language teaching problems.…”