The Contribution of Foreign Language Study to Better Understanding of English

also used. For instance, a picture of a yellow cat playing with a book is shown. Este es el gato. El gato es amarillo. El gato esta jugando, says the teacher slowly and the pupils repeat it with her and after her. Then they write it in notebooks. The notebooks were their own idea and sometimes we illustrate them. The sixth grade learns a longer story than the third grade. New pictures are described with vocabulary previously learned in connection with other pictures, which indicates that it is not mere rote learning that is taking place but that a real understanding exists. The children are also able to answer in Spanish simple questions about the pictures. We never use an English word for the meaning of a Spanish one if the word can be illustrated or acted out

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