Hall, Guillermo. Poco a poco. An elementary direct method for learning spanish. New York, Yonkers-on-Hundson, 1922. 343 p.
Tipo de Publicación: Libro de texto
Tipo de texto: Ejercicios
Tema: Enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera (ELE)
Subtema: Libros de texto.
Síntesis: Speech is any language is the spontaneous result of a desire to express thought. Correct speech is the result not so much of knowledge as of habit. If anyone doubts the truth of this assertion, let him go to hear some public speaker and listen carefully for slips in grammar and in pronunciation. He is Likely to find them aplenty. Why? Because the speaker does not know better? No, not that; but simply because under stress of enthusiasm of emotion the man lapses unconsciously into the language heard in his early youth ?that is, of the period before he studied grammar and rhetoric. It follows, then, since correct speech is a habit, and habits are built up by repetition, that the young student needs much practice. In this book the required practice is provided by the Práctica en el Uso de las Formas and by very abundant ejercicios, Cuestionarios and Composiciones. The author believes that the lessons of this book should be presented orally before the student sees the words in print. Let the ear learn to recognize the sound of the basic words ot the language. The eye will help the ear afterwards. Ife we reverse the process, the eye simply builds up its own separate memory groups and is a hindrance rather than a help.
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