Word: linguisties
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Mimi-Memo Method. The linguisti-cians' way of teaching is based on the experiences of the Americanists, students of U.S. Indian tribes, who were forced to learn many a tongue which had no written literature. Ancestor of the group was Columbia's late, great ethnologist Franz ("Papa") Boas. He and his greatest linguistic follower, the late Edward Sapir of Yale, could rattle on in Indian tongues which they learned by listening to red men, making phonetic notes, mimicking, memorizing...
Chief current Yale expert is greying, tweedy Professor Leonard Bloomfield, who riles old-fashioned language teachers a good deal. Some think that if they could teach soldiers (who take their lessons seriously) 15 hours a week they could produce speakers as fast as do linguisti-cians. Some say that if the aim is to train men to handle literature, the old grammar-ridden methods are superior. Bloomfield answers with a sharp no. He puts all his chips on learning to speak first, even if the eventual aim is to read...
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