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...whole emphasis is on elementary teaching, because this is what the graduate students will be doing first--this is the burning issue for them, Stein says in his introduction to a forthcoming anthology of modern language-teaching papers...
...Stein considers this "teacher-preparation reduced to essentials" reduced because of heavy scholarly demands on the graduate students. He adds, however, that the demands of study must not be considered so great that teacher training is neglected completely. "We are not a teacher's college and we don't want to be, but we do believe that teaching fellows, as scholar-teachers, should receive training in both fields," he said. Schools have existed for years to train high school teachers, but there are none to train college teachers. "We are filling this gap," Stein noted...
...coordinator position which has enabled Stein to lead the German Department to its present distinction in teaching. One single tenured person in charge of all the language courses in a department provides the continuity and unity which are essential in the early stages of language instruction, he explains. The University has established Co-ordinator of Language Instruction positions in the Romance and Slavic Languages and Literatures also. The only other University in the country to have a comparable position is Columbia, Stein says...
...Romance Languages Department has not been as enthusiastic in the transition to oral-aural-methods as the German Department, experts think is will take about three more years before the former's teacher-training program begins to produce as well. But the two departments are now working together--Stein and Bolinger, as co-ordinators are co-operating on further developments in the training program...
Problems have arisen with Stein's teacher-training plan. A frequent criticism is that it denies teaching salaries to first-year graduate students; universities have traditionally used the sal- aries as a kind of scholarship for their graduate students. Stein thinks this could be avoided by spreading second and third year teaching money over the full three years of study...