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University
By BARBARA LAZARUS
Prof. Kenneth Boulding of the
economics department will be a
visiting professor at the Inter-
national Christian University in
Toyko, Japan, next year.
"The International Christian
University is a small college of
around 1000 students which is
sponsored by eight American Pro-
testant demoninations. The uni-
versity offers most of its courses
in English," Prof. Boulding com-
mented.
The Danford Foundation, which
supports university and college
students through grants, provided
funds for professorsships to teach
at International Christian Uni-
versity, he noted.
Visit Enroute
Prof. Boulding is planning to
travel to Japan through Europe
and to visit peace research in-
CULTURAL PARTICIPATION:
Spanish Classes Stress Spoken Drills
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PROF. KENNETH BOULDING
...teaches in Tokyo
stitutes in London, Paris, Geneva,
Norway and India. He will spend
the entire academic year in Japan,
teaching economics and studying
and writing on general social sys-
tems.
Prof. Boulding said that he will
also be part of a Ford Foundation
research project on the economics
of disarmament, which is under
the general direction of Prof.
Emile Benoit of Columbia Univer-
sity.
"I hope to study Japan's exten-
sive development since the Second
World War and to see how well
Japan has used its resources, re-
leased from war industry, for its
rapid development."
Pilot Study
This project is a pilot study
and a similar one will be done
on Germany.:
In October,.1962,_Prof. Boulding
went to a conference sponsored by
the Ford Foundation and met'
some Japanese intellectuals. "I
was impressed with them and in-
terested in their thinking. The war
was a great shock to Japan, and
it is taking renunciation of future
wars very seriously."
"The Japanese want to develop
a life of their own and would like
to see their country become some-
thing like a Far Eastern Sweden,"
Prof. Boulding noted.
Organization
Changes Name
The National Institutional
Teacher Placement Association
has been renamed The Association
for School, College and University
Staffing.
This professional organization
of college placement directors has
functioned under the old title for
thirty years, Evart W. Ardis, direc-
tor of the bureau of appointments
and occupational information, said
recently.
Over 75 per cent of the degree
granting institutions are repre-
resented. Most of the new teach-
ers find their first teaching po-
sitions through this organization.
By MARTHA MacNEAL
"The teaching of Spanish based
on spoken drills that permit cre-
ativity but are structurally con-
trolled creates a positive psycho-
logical effect on the student by en-
couraging him to participate ac-
Exhibit Shows
H~SU Collection
of Art Prints
By BURT MICHAELS
Fifty prints representative of
the Michigan State University
print collection are onadisplay
through Feb. 24, in the art mu-
seum.
The prints, about half historical
and half contemporary, demon-
strate the type of permanent col-
lection MSU has been building.
Among the older works, Rem-
brandt's "Death of the Virgin," a
large etching done in 1639, exem-
plifies Dutch religious art, while
Van Dyck's engraving of the same
era typifies Dutch portraiture.
The nineteenth century pictures
include conservative English land-
scapes and large, revolutionary
prints by the French masters, Ren-
oir, Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec.
America of the 1800's is shown in
Whistler's "Shoemaker."
Contemporary American works
include two small color prints by
Arthur B. Davies, who pioneered
in modern color printing. More ex-
treme is the large and colorful
print by Lee Chesney.
Among the most striking works
in the exhibition are the modern
European prints. German Max
Beckman's drypoint of a night
club, Russian Marc Chagall's bib-
lical s c e n e, and Frenchman
Georges Roualt's woman symboliz-
ing the flowers of evil are includ-
ed.
The Spanish'delegation boasts a
drinking scene by Picasso, a por-
trait by Jean Miro, and an etching
of St. George and the Dragon by
Salvador Dali.
Concurrent with the exhibition
here, the art museum is display-
ing at MSU sculpture and draw-
ings by 44 contemporary sculptors.
The museum's exchange program
also involves at present a show-
ing of 30 modern American paint-
ings at the Battle Creek Art Cen-
ter. That showing includes 9
paintings donated to the Univer-
sity by Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neuberg-
er of New York.
Lerner To Talk
On Disarmaiment
Prof. Abba P. Lerner of Michi-
gan State University will address
a joint meeting of the University
Economics Society and the Eco-
nomics Club on "An Economist
Looks at Disarmament," today in
the Multipurpose Rm. of UGLI.
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tively in a new culture," accord-
ing to David Wolfe, of the ro-
mance languages department.
Wolfe, in collaboration with
John G. Inman, also of the ro-
mance languages department, and
Prof. Roger Hadlich, of Cornell
University, has prepared a struc-
tural course in Spanish, the fourth
revision of which will be publish-
ed in March. All three are special-
ists in linguistics and the appli-
cation of lingustic principles to
language teaching.
"Traditionally," Wolfe says, "the
student has always learned facts
about a language, its theory, its
grammatical rules and exceptions
and vocabulary lists, but he has
acquired little proficiency in the
language itself. The rules are use-
ful tools, but for a student who
cannot actively use the new lan-
guage the intellectual and emo-
tional impact of reading comes
only after translation into Eng-
lish, so that the foreign language
is merely a code."
Medieval Method
Declaring that many people be-
lieve that "language teaching tech-
nique is pretty medieval in the
United States," Wolfe stresses that
the structural approach allows stu-
dents to use the language from the
first day, thinking and reacting in.
Spanish without depending upon
English.
The application of these prin-
ciples results in an entirely dif-
ferent organization of a Spanish
course. Grammatical rules and vo-
cabulary are taught not in lists
but in a variety of repeated sen-
tences demonstratingra single bas-
ic structure.
"A knowledge of certain under-
lying sentence structures is crucial
to the fluent control of a lan-
guage," Wolfe says, "and although
the teacher is made aware of a
precise linguistic analysis of Span-
ish, the student is taught lan-
guage production and not linguis-
tic, analysis."
Rapid Proficiency
Once the student has learned
the basic sentence types, he can
begin to say anything he wants,
generating thousands of sentences,
"all grammatically correct."
Courses taught by this method
utilize six verb charts and three
noun charts. The course begins
with phonetic instruction in pro-
nunciation of the syllable, and
then charts are introduced. Some
English is used as an explanatory
device, but never for translation.
Thus, "students realize they can
use Spanish without English,"
Wolfe nptes. Translation, he feels,
is an art which is best taught
after the student is bilingual.
The student speaks in Spanish
for the entire class hour, in chor-
us drills or in conversation with
Dther students. A conversation
may be held in the future tense,
for example, familiarzing the stu-
dent with that structure.
The instructors can listen to
these conversations and help the
slower students, so that all pro-
gress at about the same rate. "In
this way," according to Wolfe,
"this method has many of the ad-
vantages of programmed learning."
Laboratory tapes are also used.
Testing is not a problem in this
system, Wolfe says, because the
students know the structures if
they have been properly taught.
It is possible to test whether the
structures come to the student as
they should, automatically and
without thinking. One device is
the use of humor in exams: "if the
students laugh in the right places,
we know they understand."
Experimental teaching by this
method- at the University and
across the nation indicates that
students in this type of program
usually do better than others, but,
Wolfe cautions, "there are too
many variables to draw firm con-
clusions."
Voice Party Sets
Planning Meeting
Voice Political Party will hold
an organization meeting, forthe
purposes. of electing new officers
and discussing the semester's pro-
gram, at 7:30 p.m. tonight in
Rms. 3R-S of the Michigan Union.
The, meeting is open to the public.
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