The Course of Study for junior high school was revised by the Ministry of Education last summer. The definite line for revision in foreign language (English) course is to make careful selections of teaching items from the language materials, and to foster their learning attitude for fundamental language activities in order to carry out Comfortable Education. This tendency was estimated a few years ago, and last year a new teaching procedure for it was remodeled from the old one, which was made by me in 1968, mainly based upon the Audio-lingual Habit Formation Theory. This new teaching procedure has already been applied by me and others several times at demonstration teachings in some junior high schools. While doing so, the importance of the separated treatment of language activities was realized under the situation that only three English classes can be assigned to junior high school English course. For this, first, a few suggestions to develop 'listening' ability will be made in the procedure of 'oral introduction' of the new teaching material. Second, in order to promote 'speaking' ability itself, two or three practical activities will be indroduced with some students' examples, which may be very unique for the average.
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