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RADIO AND GRAMOPHONE. . LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION. The radio and the phonegraph have replaced the familiar textbook in a new programme of language instruction at Northwestern University and the new system, says instructors, ?s making studying more enjoyable for students, states a message from Chicago, published in the "Christian Science Monitor.’’ And the new programme of instruction by recordings and shortwaveradio might bring a 50 per cent, speedup in abilty to understand and speak a foreign language, says Edwin R. Place, Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages at the University, in suburban Evanston. Although recordings have been used previously for supplementary work in the teaching of languages, Mr Place said Northwestern is the nation’s firsr university to introduce this learning-by-hearing system on the basis of instruction in all beginning Romance Language courses. The new programme, using a combination of recordings played on a special phonograph and heard through earphones or loudspeakers, and short wave radio, already has produced a “marked improvement" -in pronunciation and ability'to understand, Mr Place said. He said that he and his associates have found that students enjoy their work more under the new system, and that the initiation of the new method “is a step forward in our aim to teach a student to speak and understand a foreign language rather than to be able only to read it. Usually it takes as long as two years for a student to acquire an elementary speaking ability. We expect the use of this method to cut the time down to one year.” The new auditory method is being used in Spanish. Italian. Portuguese and French classes. More advanced students get a practical application of onversation, pronunciation and grammar by listening to broadcasts emanating from foreign countries and sent from the United States to Latin America and Europe.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1943, Page 5
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