| Show 1 MECHANICAL MEANS USED SED TO ASSIST IN INIE lANGUAGE IE COURSES OSES The Tho modern language department of ot I tho the University Is attempting to make use uso of the Phonetics laboratory for fot forthe forthe the general instruction in language Scribners who aro are publishing Pro Pro- Professor fessor Barkers Barker's new book In French and sponsoring what pr promises to b bone bi b. bione one ono of ot the the most wide re reaching innovations inno mao in the teaching of ot modern It is proposed to make u use e of or the tha Phonetics laboratory and an nn approprIation appropriation of 1200 for of or five new and arid andI three new which have havo been arranged for by the professors of ot I French and Spanish for tol the purpose of ot directing and teaching correct pronunciation pronunciation pro pro- In these two languages to I teachers and students in the tho schools throughout the country I These schools are to send in records of their work to this institution which will make mako use of ot Its apparatus to an- an I alizo alize mistakes and to dictate the correct correct correct cor cor- returning to tho sender ender the complete analysis of or mIstakes mistakes mistakes mis mIs- takes and correction This Is the first frEit attempt of or anything of this nature Inthe in inthe the tho U. U 8 S. S Scribners have felt that tho the system Is so 50 much superior to that of the former correspondent school methods as toi tol make malee it almost revolutionary revolutionary revolutionary in char character In Its present working Its direct use I Is o make language language language lan lan- guage a laboratory course in the uni uni- |
