Foreign Language Instruction: General Review

Abstract

The preceding review of foreign languages in this magazine was prepared by Harl R. Douglass and others, and appeared in the number for April 1940. Prior to that a review was made by the present writer and Katherine S. McDonald in the issue of February 1938. By way of background we may also mention the two five-year volumes of abstracts of modern foreign language methodology prepared by the late Algernon Coleman and helpers, under the title Analytical Bibliography; the last volume, ending June 1937, was listed as reference 315 in the April 1940 REVIEW. Manuscript for the third volume, through June 1942, has been prepared and should be published late in 1943 if printing problems are not too serious. Robert H. Fife is the editor. Unfortunately these volumes are expensive and come at long intervals. The summaries in the REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, the yearly selected bibliography in the School Review, meager as it is, and the department in Hispania, Along the Foreign Language Frontier (to be broadened soon with a new associate editor) serve their readers with fresher references.