This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...in three minutes; second, a passage in which the cases of nouns and pronouns were to be indicated in three minutes; and third, a passage in which the tenses and modes were to be indicated in three minutes. The test for usage consisted of 100 sentences each of which was stated in two ways. Both might be correct, both ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...in three minutes; second, a passage in which the cases of nouns and pronouns were to be indicated in three minutes; and third, a passage in which the tenses and modes were to be indicated in three minutes. The test for usage consisted of 100 sentences each of which was stated in two ways. Both might be correct, both might be incorrect, or one might be correct and the other incorrect. Pupils were allowed f1fteen minutes in which to indicate the correct expressions. The results are summarized in the following tables. The tests were made upon 54 university Juniors and Seniors and 146 high-school pupils. They gave the results shown in Table 57, in which the scores for knowledge of grammar are the numbers of the parts of speech, tenses, cases, and modes indicated correctly in the specified period of time, and the scores for correctness of usage are the numbers of sentences designated correctly in the specified period of time. Another test for correctness of usage, consisting of sentences like the set of one hundred but arranged in the order of increasingly difficult steps, was made on another group of 146 university students and 92 high-school pupils. This test yielded the results given in the following table. The scores are the numbers of the highest steps passed. The higher the score is, the greater is the ability of using English correctly. These tables agree in showing one very significant result, namely, that the study of foreign languages materially increases a pupil's knowledge of English grammar but only slightly increases his ability in the correct usage of the English language. Notice, for example, the upper part of Table 57. The students who had 10 to 15 years of foreign languages made a score in grammatical knowledge of 63, as compared with a score o...
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