| Show Ute Language Chief Helps Army Plans Llewelyn R. head of the Language Department at the University of has Just received a highly favorable pilot study language report from the far east Professor McKay is obviously inasmuch as this particular report concerns the progress being made in foreign language studies for the United States McKay is witnessing some of the fruits of his labors after having spent three j and one half months organizing I and setting up the proposed j study programs for the efforts were concentrated in Korea and A report to Professor McKay indicates that the results final language examinations given the servicemen compare very favorably with the scores of University of Utah students who have taken the same the direct method inaugurated by both at the University of Utah and for the U.S. is proving to be a practical language learning In commenting about the direct McKay emphasizes that there are four means of learning a foreign He lists them as and Each is dependent upon the other and each is related to the it is important that be integrated The direct method approach means teaching the language in a natural way so that there is a direct association with objects and actions which results in the student's thinking in the foreign Translation from one language to another should be completely Thus the awkward intermediate use of English must be direct method teaching demands much emphasis on grammar for an adequate knowledge of The language program for the U.S. was decided upon after General I. D. issued a directive a year ago to the effect that all officers are to become proficient in the use of a j LLEWELYN R. McKAY language program foreign He in that all army personnel in the Pacific are to learn enough of the language of a country in which they are stationed to converse on ordinary The Army program took shape when William N. Director of the Education Branch for the U.S. carefully observed the language programs of several universities and chose the method used by the University of Almost Professor McKay was assigned to personally tour the bases and organize the proposed MacKay says he was treated with the greatest of respect and consideration during his far eastern tour last All progress reports he has received up to the present on the pilot studies have been Madeleine also of the University of Utah language has been teaching French and Russian in Hawaii for several She is now completing an inspection tour of the far east army bases in and Miss reports to McKay that General I. D. White is very pleased with the progress of the pilot He especially commented on the impressive accomplishments of the language laboratory in Camp |
