Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Repetition forms the key to the oral-aural method, the new and better way to teach foreign languages which Harvard has finally adopted. Instead of studying grammar per se, students pick up grammar implicitly; instead of learning rules for pronunciation, they first learn to say many words and later discover the rules...
Meanwhile, Harvard continued with the time-honored dusty-dry procedure of teaching translation rather than a language. One studied grammar, not conversation. But this grammatical analysis Stein is convinced, "stifled American interest in languages," and certainly many of the complaints registered in the past about Harvard language courses touched precisely on this now-out dated approach. "In the past, students thought German was only English translated, but this is wrong. You cannot learn about a culture simply by translating into English...
Through exercises in phonetics, grammar, and vocabulary, the new test gives the individual "a sample of what it's like to learn a foreign language," Carroll explained...
Envisioning this type of city, Barnes feels the new Cambridge deserves an outstanding public school system. The CCA supports such programs as Harvard assistance in teaching foreign languages in the grammar schools, M.I.T. aid with physics, or Harvard instructors in voluntary high school Russian courses. Should an anti-CCA Mayor win the chair and put independent forces in charge of the School Committee, Barnes thinks their probably consequent actions would be detrimental to an outstanding school system...
...temple-filled ancient capital, he discovered the Bible in a secondhand bookshop. Kotsuji entered a Christian mission school, studied Hebrew, became a Presbyterian; he later studied philology at the University of California, earned a doctorate at Kyoto University. Acknowledged as Japan's top Hebraist. Kotsuji wrote a Hebrew grammar, tutored scholarly Prince Mikasa, youngest brother of Nippon's Emperor Hirohito...