去年夏天刘钟诚先生曾就直接教学法等问题写信给美国夏威夷大学校长,不久即收到他的复信,信中还附有该校二外英语系主任Richard Schmidt博士对所提问题的答复。刘先生把信和答复转给了我们。我们认为Schmidt博士的观点在外语教学界有一定代表性,特请刘先生译出并摘要予以发表。 Last summer, Mr. Liu Chung-shing wrote to the president of the University of Hawaii on direct teaching methods and soon received a reply from his reply letter to Dr. Richard Schmidt, director of the two English departments of the school. Mr. Liu transferred the letter and reply to us. We think Dr. Schmidt’s point of view has some representation in the field of foreign language teaching, especially invited Mr. Liu translated and summarized to be published.