TY - JOUR
AU - Jackson, Alfred
AB - REVIEWS OF BOOKS exists, Mr. Gordon considers these aims, but cosmopolitan selection, evident in the choice he now becomes more assertive and less con- of very average Croatian and Estonian poetry, while praiseworthy in itself, tends to offer the vincing. 'Never between the covers of one book second-rate as if it were genuine poetry, only can the young English teacher find a clear and because it is written in a difficult tongue. We comprehensive statement of what has subject is about... . Can he say what it is he is trying to suffer from these surges of enthusiasm—the do ?' He continues: 'English is a threefold skill: contemporary interest in modern Greek poetry is an example—and pay the penalty of the the ability to express oneself in spoken or writ- traveller in the Orient who acquires Birming- ten speech and so to initiate communication; ham ware at ah exotic price. The editors of the ability to understand the spoken or written speech of another and so to complete the com- Translation, who have done a great deal in this munication ; and the ability to feel or appreciate volume to introduce us to the genuine article from abroad, should 
TI - The Teaching of English: A Study in Secondary Education
JO - English
DO - 10.1093/english/7.37.35
DA - 1948-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-teaching-of-english-a-study-in-secondary-education-73pYjb0tMU
SP - 35
EP - 36
VL - 7
IS - 37
DP - DeepDyve
ER -