Excerpt from French Lessons: A Demonstration of the Direct Method in Elementary Teaching The visit of Director Walter to this country is due to the invitation extended to him by the Trus tees of Teachers College, Columbia University. His recognized position as one of the foremost expo neuts of the Reform-method in modern language teaching made it desirable that he should find an Opportunity to illustrate his theories in practice, and the accompanying lessons accurately recorded by Miss Ballard are a faithful transcript of eighteen lessons, sixteen of which were given by him to a group of children previously unacquainted with French. The value of lessons recorded with the most nu compromising fidelity has been recognized for some time by the Secondary Education Department of Teachers College, and a series of Stenographic Reports on lessons of various types, and in various subjects, published by Teachers College in 1910, has afforded abundant food for thought and study to practical teachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.