Teaching Foreign Languages in the Elementary School

This is a report of a panel discussion held at the Protestant Reformed Teacher’s Convention last October. The subject of foreign language study in the elementary school has received much attention in the past few years. Many schools in our country have been putting such a program into practice. The reasons for studying a foreign language are many. One of the reasons for this is the fact that the world seems to be getting smaller all the time. Countries that used to take days and weeks to...