Friday, October 1, 1976 13 Intensive language programs pose stiff hurdles for unwary students By CHRIS COTTRELL If you're looking for a quick and effective way to learn a foreign language, the University of Kansas' intensive French course will be forewarned—the course is demanding. It's listed as French in the timetable, but the course isn't an ordinary beginning foreign language class. Worth 16 credit and graduate diploma and advanced class rolled into one. Intensive French is the braincade of David Dinnen, professor of French and Italian and of linguistics and chairman of the linguistics department. The program is in its sixth year and was begun on the premise that the best way to learn a foreign language is through constant exposure to it. "I FELT IT was the best way to teach people French," Dinnen said last week, "and since I've been doing it, I'm convinced that it is." Students this semester spend from 20 to 25 hours a week in class and receive instruction from about eight teachers. Distance learning teaches five hours each week in the class. The course is offered only in the fall semester. Another intensive French class, worth 11 credit hours, is offered in the spring. That course is designed for students who have completed a five-hour introductory French course. Sixteen and 11-hour German courses are taught in the spring, and an intensive Spanish class formerly was offered, but八年级学生 now attended 16-hour language program this semester. ALTHOUGH INTENSIVE language classes aren't common in most colleges, Dinneen said, the intensive system isn't new. “There isn't anything particularly novel about my program,” he said, “I have done it myself.” So we teach the language following fairly traditional methods of teaching. The one different thing is that we see the kids all day and they learn everything else aside and they learn French. Dinneen said there was still a search for a better method of teaching a language. "We have not yet found the most effective of teaching a second language," he said. "We've been using a very effective way, but certainly the ideal, most effective way, has not been ONE OF THE most efficient ways to learn a foreign language is to go to the country in which it is spoken. And Dimeeen said that he learned from a class to France for part of the semester. 'I very much would like to take the students over between Thanksgiving and a reasonable amount of time," he said. He said that he had wanted to take the students to France the past two years, but it was too time-consuming. "There were a number of difficulties," he said. "For one thing, we didn't have enough students to make it economically feasible. That was the main problem." HE SAID HE would like to see more students in the program, but he wasn't expecting it. "I don't think we'll ever get a lot of students. Most people just don't want to take a chance on 16 hours of C or D," he said. Dimeeen said he wouldn't recommend the course to all students. "I don't think that an intensive program is the right thing for everybody. I think it's the most effective way for most people, but it doesn't work with who just can't take the pressure," he said. "There is pressure. It's not just hard to learn. You know all the time. Some people shouldn't do it." HARRIET BLANTON, Morrill junior, who took the program as a freshman, and is now a senior. "A lot of people don't enjoy language that much and 18 of at once would just be hard to learn," she says. The man sold she employed the coarse. The woman said she felt it, "never seemed like work." She never seemed like fun. The teachers made it that way because they all enjoyed that they were doing. you really enjoy languages, you wouldn't want to take it." Blanton said that because of the shortened time period, she didn't think intensive French students learned as large a vocabulary as those who took French for retraining and she added that the retention rate seemed to be higher for intensive French students. Blanton said she enjoyed the course. Farm and trucking logos promoted during cap fad By BILL CALVERT "THE VOCABULARY I had, I could use," she said. Staff Writer John Deere, Chevy Trucks and Excel Grain Co., to welcome the University of Kirkcald... These companies aren't actually trying to sell tractors, trucks and grain to students. But their trademarks, over the hills of stuff from all over the world, might moremon sight on campus in the past year or so. "My dad got this one free when he bought some grain from Excel." Brungdert said. "You can usually get them from places like Target or Groupon, or you can or get one free when you buy a tractor." What is the meaning of the appearance of these emblems of rural America at KU, "the cultural oasis" of Kansas? Is it a fashion, a craze, or merely crazy? John Peters, Lawrence senior, said he had been wearing caps lce caps since he was in high school. He started wearing caps regularly when he saw other people, such as "It makes me unique," said Randy Brungardt, Galesburg senior, who was sporting recently a red Excel Grain Co. cup. "I like it because the only one on campus with an Excel cap." BRUNGART SAID that the emergence of the trademark caps on campus might be called a fashion but that he hadn't seen many people wearing them this year. He knew they were there at time, said that one of the best things about the caps was that they usually were free. his grandfather, who owns a farm near Lawrence, wearing them. The fashion isn't without its practical aspects. "It keeps the sun out of my eyes and helps keep my hair in place," Peters said. "My hair gets real frizzy when the wind is blowing." The sense of comradeship among cap wearers on campus is one motivation for staff to be involved. "WHEN I WALK by someone with a cap, I look at their cap and the look at my cap," she said. Ever since he became a cap enthusiast of few years ago, Peters has amassed a sizable collection of caps. The logs on those caps are for such places and names as Lake Calif., Vail, Gold, Golden Harvest, Coors, and Ises, an Emporia tavern. "If I see a hat I like, I'll buy it," Peters said. Sonia Manuel, Lawrence junior, took the course in the fall 1974 semester. She also said it in the fall 1974 semester to remember the language. Peters said that he thought the caps became common on campus about a year ago. They also are common in bars, such as the Stables, he said. "I learned it much faster and retained it much better." Manuel said. "It's just like being in a country where you are forced to speak that language. All of your classes are taught in one other homework or no other interference. Everything you do is geared toward French." JEFF RICHARDS, Clay Center freshman and a cap distinguishes its wearer in "If you wear a hat, the people always remember you because you were the one with the hat," Richards said from under the bill of his Chevy Trucks cap. an original campus fad, but were merely of the things that people brought from home. "Most of the people who wear them around home wear them around here," he Like Brungardt, Richards also got his cap free. Richards said the caps didn't represent MIKE PHELPS, Wichita senior, got his Peterbilt cap from a friend who drives a Peterbilt truck. Phillips, who has had his first career as an assistant coach of the time, mainly for practical reasons. "My cousin works at a Chevy place," Richards said. "He ripped this one off an Aeropostale." "I always wear it when I ride my motorcycle," Phillips said. 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