This high school teaching guide on the history of the English language consists of 36 short essays written by teachers and assembled under five headings: (1) The Indo-European Language Family, (2) Language Analysis, (3) The Old English Period, (4) The Middle English Period and the Renaissance, and (5) The Modern English Period in America. A…

The guide focuses on a rationale for exploratory foreign language courses in middle or junior high school, and on the goals and objectives for such courses. An exploratory course may serve a number of purposes regardless of whether or not a pupil elects a foreign language at a later time. These purposes include: (1) acquainting pupils with a…