Language study
Subtitle: papers from the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, Committee on Missionary Personnel
Contributors: Cummings, Thomas F.; Jones, Daniel; Pettus, William B. (William Bacon), 1880-1959
Published: 1925
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Language and languages; Study and teaching; Missionaries; Training of; Missions; History; Foreign Missions Conference of North America; North China Language School
Notes: Received by the Missionary Research Library in 1955.

Portfolio of pamphlets and mimeographed papers of assorted sizes, dated from 1912 to 1925.
Table of contents: title: Report of the Special Committee on the Training of Missionaries submitted to the China Continuation Committee at its third annual meeting, Shanghai, April 30th to May 5th, 1915; title: Findings of conference leaders of training schools for missionaries, held at Nanking December 30-31, 1915: letter and memo to John R. Mott, January 7, 1916 / D. Willard Lyon; title: Elementary lessons in Chinese / Arnold Foster; title: Phonetics: a comparison of English and Pekingese / W.B. Pettus; title: Learning Chinese for better business: language schools are doing a great service to international trade / Elizabeth S. Allen; title: Course of study: North China Union School, Peking, 1920; title: The North China Union Language School; title: The key to China / North China Union Language School; title: Appreciations: collected letters to W.B. Pettus; title: Report of the Committee on Study and Publicity of the East Persia Mission; title: Experimental phonetics and its utility to the linguist / Lord Rayleigh, Daniel Jones; title: The value of phonetics to the language student / Daniel Jones; title: Draft memorandum for heads of training schools on the field; title: Missionary training on the field; title: Report of Language Study Commission: individual reports on schools visited, summarized report, deductions and recommendations; title: Tentative outline of scope of China training schools for missionaries....; title: Tentative outline of suggestions for conference of missionary training schools; title: The study of language by missionary candidates; title: Report on the committee for the linguistic preparation of the foreign missionary; title: Confidential questionnaires; title: Suggestions for the training and assignments of missionary candidates; title: Where and how should missionaries study the language / W.B. Pettus; title: The scientific and efficient language study for missionaries / Thomas F. Cummings; title: How to learn a language / Thomas F. Cummings; title: The right method of learning a language / Thomas F. Cummings; title: Language mastery / Thomas F. Cummings; title: Report of trip to the Far East of Rev. Thomas F. Cummings; title: What should one expect in a language school? / Thomas F. Cummings.