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Grammar
An extract from ** Sprachunterricht und Sprechfilm "
(language -teaching and the talking film) a study
by Fraulein Franziska Juer-Marbach
(from the German)
" Rules of grammar are resultant phenomena; to represent them as causative is therefore illogical. "
(Talleyrand)
The judgment of artists, etymologists and teachers on the subject of grammar, regarded as part of the science of speech, is singular. Its value as a necessary component of the structure of thought is universally acknowledged, its value as a subject of teaching, on the other hand, hotly contested.
In order to determine how and when grammar should be incorporated within our curricula, it is not enough to know that certain teachers would banish it altogether from the syllabus. We must first hear the other side of
(Editorial Note) . The accompanying article is the third chapter of a work entitled " The talking film and language-teaching " undertaken by Fraulein Juer-Marbach, doctor of philology at the University of Vienna, under the auspices of the International Institute of Educational Cinematography at Rome, This study, as regards both its contents and its purpose, is highly original and will serve as an important contribution to a larger work of research into the use of the film in teaching, initiated by the author in collaboration with Dr. Luciano de Feo, Director of the Institute, and shortly to be published.
The present chapter gives a very clear idea of Fraulein Juer-Marbach's method of treating her subject. It represents what is perhaps the first attempt to proceed on scientific lines and to base film-teaching upon well-established pedagogic data and not upon day-to-day experimentation. The author has not chosen to make a clean sweep of the past and treat film-teaching as an entirely new science, but regards it as a subject to which distinguished men have already devoted much time and thought. She has constantly kept in view the educational achievements of the past, the teaching experiments of all kinds throughout the ages, and it is this that gives weight and substance to what may have the appearance of somewhat theoretical work.
Nor has Fraulein Juer-Marbach shirked the duty of individual research. The eight subdivisions of " The Talking-film and Language-teaching " are