CORRECT POSITIONS FOR READING The book should be below the level of the chin, so as not to hide the face and obstruct the voice. INCORRECT POSITIONS FOR READING Book too low and close to the Book too high and too near the body. Neck bent. eyes. OF AMERICAN SPEECH BY CALVIN L. LEWIS, A.M. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, HAMILTON COLLEGE, CLINTON, N. Y. SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK PREFACE The recent revival of interest in Oral English has met with one serious obstacle. It finds few teachers trained in Oral English and able to teach it. No one now questions the desirability of more attention to the oral side of the subject than has been given in the past, but many superintendents and principals hesitate to introduce oral work for lack of properly trained instructors. There is little doubt that before many years adequate oral endowment and training will come to be a necessary part of the English teacher's equipment. Meanwhile ways must be devised for instructing pupils in the elements of accurate and effective speech. The writer has frequently been asked to prepare a textbook to be used by teachers without special training. He does not believe that a book can be written which will wholly take the place of personal instruction. He does think, however, that it is not impossible for an untrained teacher to teach some of the fundamental facts of correct speech from a simple text. The HANDBOOK is such a text. It is for use in the English class room and out of it by the pupil. That the HANDBOOK may the more readily be understood by beginning students and untrained teachers, none but common and simple terms have 1 297987 |
