A Seventeenth Century Frequency Word List

ALTHOUGH it is generally agreed that the once sensationally interesting educational ideas of Comenius belong to the past, practically every investigator makes allusions to the fact that Comenius very often voiced opinions which the modern educator fully shares. The consensus of opinion with regard to Comenius seems to be that he is one of the precursors of modern pedagogy, yet, almost none of the investigators has thought it worth his while to point out that only recently some tendencies in the field of modern language teaching might directly be traced back to the works of Comenius. Even recent books, like that by Anna Heyberger,2 although unquestionably one of the best in the extensive Comenius literature, fail to do full justice to Comenius as a precursor of ideas concerning the teaching of languages. The present study does not intend to deal fully with the reforms of Comenius in the field of language teaching, but will merely try to show to what extent Comenius might be regarded as a precursor of modern tendencies in the realm of modern language teaching. We shall particularly try to deal in detail with Comenius as a compiler of a word list

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