THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUTRmMAI1 _____________ _ "." _. " "'5." AZI 2 U4CLA~ZJ 1 t6~D1CU1ZR , To Instruct At Foreign 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 NOW! 4r1 'I AjjU DIAL $-6416 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. AT LASTS e:r "MACK the KNIFE" in that International Success THE TH REEPENNY OPERA by Kurt Weill and Bert Brecht FEB. 20 thru 23 LYDIA MENDELSSOHN TH. Order Now! 8:00 P.M. Wed., Thurs. $1.75-Fri., Sat. $2 Write: A.A. Civic Theatre P. O. Box 87 Please enclose self-addressed stdmped envelope 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. DIAL 5-6290 ENDS TONIGHT Explodes with Excitement! M WMAR BERGMMNoft se; e lov,fhe levfland tnohty.. .r o ,s~e "Id IS MY FUTURE PAID ADVERTISEMENT Cintetna I PRESENTS Thursday and Friday at 7:00 and 9:00 The Academy Award Winning STALAG 171! Starring William Holden, Don Taylor, and Otto Prerninger Directed by BILLY WILDER Saturday and Sunday at 7:00 and 9:00 Rene Clair's THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT "The funniest film of all time!" From the farce by Eugene Labiche, with Alice Tissot and Albert Prejean SHORT: Sunday. Greenwich Village Folksingers battle the police. LIMITED ENCORE ENGAGEMENT 1f$ d$ Ati a a Winnr |N i I!A IN SEARCH OF THE TECHNICOLOR* Ieawed by BUENA VISTA Ois-uied Loa C.. 01962 wait Diem y ProdwUons Shows at 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 P.M. FRIDAY- TONY CURTIS IN "40 Pounds Of Trouble" A great success on Broadway, Stalag 17 was idiomatically transferred to the screen, Wil-. Liam Holden receiving the lead- ing male Academy Award for his portrayal. The play is an entertaining example of the Rover Boys approach to war, or how much fun we had with our pin-up girls. Eugene Labiche was one of the most prominent 19th cen- tury French comic playwrights, whose works, the Oxford Com- panion assures us, still bring pleasure when revived. Of his many farces few would excel The Italian Straw Hat in. its wildly absurd situations, rapid pace, and constant invention. It was recently presented on the Ann Arbor stage as Horse Eats Hat. Rene Clair utilized this promising material for one of his greatest films, an unre- lenting satire of the French bourgeoisie and a standard for sustained film farce that has never been matched. awe Va ALMANMERGRADUATE YES WNW CIIICEMIL .4"' IWtEREST IAND CNALENGINII ASSIGNMENT ND PROGRAMMERS & MATHEMATICIANS STL INVITES YOU TO DISCUSS OPPORTUNITIES WITH MEMBERS OF ITS TECHNICAL. STAFF WHEN THEY VISIT YOUR CAMPUS ON FEBRUARY 14 & 15 Investigate careers at the Computation and Data Reduction Center in STL's new ultra-modern Space Technology Center, Redondo Beach, California, near Los Angeles International Airport. Here, over 300 programmers, scientists and tech- nicians are daily performing space mission anal- includes two IBM 7090 and six 1401 computers and peripheral equipment, a format converter that processes.digital and analog telemetry data, an analog-to-digital converter which automatically con. verts telemetry data into binary information, and a wave analyzer for frequency analysis of data. I **:...-...''.'' I