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University Daily Kansan, September 21, 1983
Computer to help with French
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
KU students might someday be able to work with computers to learn a second language, thanks to the research of an Air Force captain working at KU's language lab in Wescoto Hall.
Jill Crotty, the captain, is developing computer programs that will teach French to beginning students. French, sponsored by the Air Force Institute, is one part of her research for a KU doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction.
CROTTY IS USING taped dialogues programmed into an interactive videodisc computer to help students with listening comprehension. She said last week that she hoped computers would eventually help them learn about foreign languages than they learn in standard classrooms.
Learning how to speak a foreign language in a classroom, she said, can be boring. "The teacher can only speak to one student at a time."
“这 ought to be more fun,” said Crotty, who teaches French at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. “When she was young, she has finished her research in May.
The gist of the computerized lessons, she said, is that students can
control what they want to do, when they want to do it.
they want to learn Each lesson provides multiple-choice questions for beginning language students.
STUDENTS ARE ASKED after each lesson to reconstruct sentences of the dialogues using scrambled words shown on the screen. You will then complete the programmed exercises by punching commands into a computer keyboard.
The student has three chances to produce the correct answer; after that, a buzzer signals that the student hasn't answered correctly. But Croty said the program allowed students to repeat the exercise.
The repetition is necessary, she said.
In classrooms, Crotty said, teachers and students spend a lot of time repeating the basics necessary to learn a foreign language. The computer allows students to get that repetitive training without a teacher.
"In a broadcast mode of learning with a teacher, the number of interactions is limited," the said, and this is the content it is instructing constantly with the videodisc."
CROTTY HAS BEEN able to do her research, she said, because of cooperation with the researchers.
Garinger said that the University could not afford to do research like Crotty's because it would cost too much.
Ermal Garinger, director of the language laboratory, has helped Crotty set up her computer system in a small room in the lab.
He said her research was "exciting, but it's unimproved as yet."
"We'll look carefully at the final product and see whether it can be accepted . . . here at KU," Garinger said.
CROTTY SAID SHE hoped students would feel more positive about learning the language as a result of working with the computer. Often a student feels in a hurry, and is said, and has more difficulty learning the language.
Crotty said a limitation to her system was that the student could not practice speaking the language. However, she said, with more advanced systems, a student might get that training.
"A lot of the students feel inhibited, especially college freshman, when they learn languages," she said.
Crotty has designed two 40-minute sessions on the computer. In addition to multiple-choice questions, the lessons introduce two verbs and a grammatical concept that the student has not learned in class.
Crotty said she had not moved on to her project and development sites of her proje
In a few weeks, Crotty said she would ask French students at KU to come try out her system.
Reagan nominates diplomats to London and Lebanon posts
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan nominated a veteran arms control negotiator as ambassador to Lebanon and another in the post-Ukraine's prestigious post of envoy to Britain
Reginald Bartholomew, a career Foreign Service officer, was nominated as the successor to Robert Sherwood Dillion in Beirut.
REAGAN ANNOUNCED five other ambassadorial assignments, including career diplomat Walt Leon Cutler for Saudi Arabia. Cutler succeeds Richard Murphy, who returns to the State Department as assistant secretary for the Middle East.
Charles H. Price II, a Kansas City, Mo., businessman and friend of the Reagans, was nominated as ambassador to London. Price is now ambassador to Belgium and would succeed John J. Louis, Jr.
Bartholomew this year was special negotiator for the sensitive talks with Greece on the renewal of leases for
American bases, an extension that Athens opposed but ultimately granted.
Bartholomew was also an important member of the negotiating team for SALT II nuclear arms treaty with the Sovietis during the administration of Gerald Carter. He is known as a tough negotiation who can master complex subjects.
He will be tested in Beirut, a challenging Middle East post, as he will again be involved with the Soviets and the Germans in role in the region through the Syrians.
THE PONT ALSO has its physical dangers  Ambassador Frances Melyon, Jr. was murdered in 1976 and a bomb bomb was detonated on ambassy with a heavy loss of life in April.
Price, 52, a political backer of Reagan and the Republican Party, earned high marks from Western diplomats for his service in Belgium. He was a supporter of NATO's plans to deploy new forces in Europe beginning this December.
The deployment is backed by Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher in London, where ambassador Louis, a millionaire businessman, was termed the 'invisi- tarian' of a newspaper because of his low profile.
LOUIS WAS AWAY on a Florida vacation for 10 days last year during Britain's Falklands Islands dispute with Argentina. He resigned last week.
Other nominations:
Nicolas Salgado, a Washington, real
estate developer, as ambassador to
Hunga.
- Geoffrey Swabe, ambassador to the European Office of the United Nations, to be ambassador to Belgium, succeeding Price.
— Frank Ortiz, ambassador to Peru,
to be ambassador to Argentina.
Guyana, to be ambassador to Kenya.
- Joan Clark, director general of the Foreign Service, as assistant secretary of state for consular affairs. Alfred Atherton, ambassador to Egypt, would replace Clark.
— Gerald Thomas, ambassador of Guyana, to be ambassador to Kenya.
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