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...addition to instilling better pronunciation, the oral-aural method provides better results in teaching the language as a whole, reading as well as speaking. Jack M. Stein, professor of German and director of elementary German courses, points out that students using the direct method did better last year on the language proficiency examination--a test based only on reading knowledge--than did students in a course directed toward reading and translation. The direct method, Stein unequivocally states, is "much better. I won't use any other method...
...have advanced from passive listening to active mimicry by having students repeat what they hear from the master voice," Edward Geary, assistant professor of Romance Languages, comments. He points out the "autocritical" function: If a person makes an egregious mispronunciation, he then hears it when he replays the tape. This method, carried on in the privacy of individual booths, also avoids embarrassment for students about their blunders," Geary states, in addition to hammering in corrent pronunciations...
Stein has been more concerned with a reorganization of elementary German courses. A professor at Columbia until a year ago, Stein headed their exceptionally successful modern language program, so well that Levin deems him "the best man in the country for teaching beginning German." He teaches two sections, one in German B and one in German C, and an upper-level course; he also heads a group of five instructors and fifteen part-time assistants ("all in training to become language teachers") concerned with lower-level German instruction. Stein came to Harvard convinced of the value of the direct method...
According to Professor Samuel L. Adams, chairman of the three-man committee which prepared the Faculty statement in preliminary form, tonight's action represents the "peculiar perspective of the Divinity School, of a faculty engaged in teaching religion, and is not merely a rehearsal of previous debate...
Both Stanley H. Hoffman, Henry LeBarre Jayne Assistant Professor of Government, and A. Nicholas wahl, instructor in government, were wary of accepting Hurd's conclusion that, "This means no less than France's withdrawal from the jointly decided and executed operations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization," without seeing more extensive portions of the speech...