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Foreign Students Learn From Her
A face familiar to many foreign students on the campus is that of Miss Frances Ingemann, assistant professor of English. New to the campus this academic year, Miss Ingemann teaches two sections of American English for foreign students and one course in linguistics.
"It is difficult to find something in class useful to all the foreign students, because they come from so many different backgrounds," she said. "Some know a lot of English and some know little."
She said that her students have all studied English in their own countries.
Know Basic Things
"They know the basic things, such as the verb forms, plurals, placing
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adjectives before nouns, and so on," she said. "However, they don't always apply what they know. One problem is to get them to use things in practice that they know in rules."
She explained that she has students in her classes practice dialogs for pronunciation.
"They pick up a lot of phrases that way," she said. "I haven't used
a tape recorder because we are living in a country where English is spoken, and I think that it is more valuable for the students to get out among Americans and talk to them. If I were teaching English in a foreign country, I would make great use of the tape record."
She said that usually Europeans are the most likely to know English.
"It is partly because they have studied it from the grades on and partly because they are very frequently in close contact with England and spend their vacations there," she said.
No "Best English"
An educated dialect of English, acceptable everywhere, is what she tries to teach the foreign students, she explained, although there is no "best English" because from a linguistic point of view all dialects are good.
"I don't teach the foreign students a southern accent, though," she said. "It would not be appropriate."
She said that she concentrates more on oral than on written English in her classes with the foreign students.
"We do have some written work, but written English is based on spoken English—we learn to speak before we write," she said.
She does not use the phonetic alphabet, she explained, because it is necessary for the students to recognize words as they are ordinarily written.
"Not all the students know the phonetic alphabet." Miss Ingemann explained. "If we are going to use it to any degree in class, I give a brief lesson on it beforehand."
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Expect 150 At Meeting
Anticipated attendance at the eighth annual Soil Mechanics and Engineering Conference March 7, in the Kansas Union will be between 125 and 150 persons, according to George W. Bradshaw, professor of civil engineering.
Thursday, Feb. 27, 1958
The department of civil engineering will sponsor the conference.
"The principal purpose of the conference is to acquaint practicing engineers and students with recent developments in the field," Prof. Bradshaw said.
"Past conferences have been fairly successful, in meeting this purpose, we have received numerous reports and compliments after each conference," he added. "The best indication of their success is the attendance, which has been increased each year."
Reports and discussions will be presented by specialists on highway, building, and residence construction.
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Another federal service Civil Service examination will be given on Saturday April 12,1958.
Federal Service Examination April 12
This additional test date was arranged so college seniors and juniors who could not take it earlier could take it.
Applications for the April 12 test must be made by March 12. Application cards and full information are available at the University placement office, local post office, or the U. S. Civil Service Region, St. Louis, Mo.
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