Abstract
THERE is no doubt that the Army language programs have yielded astonishing results in the teaching of the spoken language. Thousands of Army personnel are enthusiastic about this method and have been asking the question, What effect will this type of teaching have upon college language courses? Though widespread publicity has created some false impressions, it has aroused intense general interest from the layman to the college president. The language teacher, even the skeptic, recognizes this impetus given to the teaching of modern languages. He is aware of the challenge which the intensive teaching of languages has given him and would welcome the opportunity of meeting it. The modern language departments at Northwestern were given this opportunity in the Fall of 1944 when the College of Liberal Arts put into effect its new B.A. program.' The administration asked for the best possible language course, assuring us its full support. The German course was planned by Mr. Flygt and myself and is, in the main, based on our experience in two German Civil Affairs Training School (CATS) classes and on my subsequent experience with three Japanese CATS classes where I found myself a good deal closer to the problems of teaching and learning a foreign language than in the German CATS, since I studied Japanese under much the same conditions as the student officers.
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