Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 22

22 RENO EVENING GAZETTE AUGUST 7, 1961 Foreign Language HIS 1jlISIjvJ2 Juv Laboratories Sat LMJ cording of a language expert through earphones and give the By BOB SMITH Gazette-Journal Carson City Bureau required response through a we need your help Students in ten Nevada high The teacher can switch from one student, to another to hear schools this fall will be able to learn foreign languages as they learn their native tongue by the individual responses, although they are all made at once. The first learning to speak it, then student hears only his own response through the earphones. learning to read and write it. The teacher can correct any This reversal of the process in Mm pi us student without disturbing, the rest of the class, or can record any effect for many years where students learned to read and write a foreign language, but of i I PSw mm- of the replies for future reference and playback, or individual help to a pupil. their own voices in responding to the lesson source is a great help to the students, educators say, because it allows them to analyse and compare their pronunciations and intonations to that of the correct model voice.

ten never to speak it correctly is made possible through installation of foreign language laboratories. BEST FACILITIES This is the report from the State Department of Education, which! has promoted the language SPEEDS PROCESS laboratory installations in high The 1 a a laboratory, schools throughout the state as part of a program to provide Ne through providing for more indi vada with the best and most vidual instruction and benefits derived from hearing the language spoken correctly, speeds up modern educational facilities in the nation. HIGHEST SCORING DOG in an obedience sanction mdtch. sponsored by German Shepherd Dog Club of Reno was Duke, pictured above with owner, Harold Verness. Duke, who scored 198 out of a possible 200, has been training with the club for about one year.

First installation of a language laboratory was at the Basic High School in Henderson in the summer of 1960. The Mineral County High School at Hawthorne was hum hum 1 THE UNITED WAV the learning process, not -only in speaking it, but in reading and writing it, educators say. public and educator's believe that a -skill in foreign language is a necessary part of a child's education. The language lab provides the facility and method of fulfilling this need." McGuire said. Voluntary Boat Safety Check By Lake Tahoe Safety Council IN VASHOE COUNTY A next in line for a lab.

Carson High School edged out Fallon to be third with the use of a language laboratory. Installation at the Churchill County High School was followed by labs at Boulder City, Ely, Elko, the Las Vegas High Schools and at the new Western High School in Las Vegas. Three of the earlier installations" were in operation for part of the! Vern Cox, boat safety chairman for the windshield to denote com iphance with boat safety regula The language laboratories are obtained by the schools under the National Defense Education Act, where funds are provided by the federal government on a 50-50 tions. Lake Valley Fire De partment will assist Cox and Jack for the south shore chapter of the Lake Safety announced plans for a "voluntary boat safety check" at Lake Tahoe, Saturday, Aug. 12.

The boat check will take place Holt, fire marshall, is coordinat matching basis. ing. the department's activity with Local Firms Have Already Pledged executives fo the Average cost of the installations in Nevada has been between $4,500 the boat safety committee. Holt last school year, while those in has enlisted the aid of the U. S.

and $6,000, with the local school Elv, Elko, Boulder City, Las Ve at the Tahoe Keys Marina and Coast Guard, Lake Tahoe Patrol districts paying half that amount, gas and Western High School are for the boat inspections. all boat owners are invited to have their boats checked free by and the other half paid from fed now being completed and will see Ml their first use this fall. the expert inspectors on Cox's The "Voluntary Boat Safety Check" is patterned after the "Vehicle Safety Check" and is committee. Bishop Manogue High School Tourist as well as- local resi in Reno also has a language laboratory, but the Department of aimed toward keeping safe operating boats -on Lake Tahoe. Boat eral funds.

School district seeking the installation prepare a plan detailing the proposed improvement and submit it to the State Department of Education for a check to insure it meets required specifications. The department also aids the Education had no part its in dents' boats will be inspected during the boat safety event and each boat passing the check without defect will be issued a sticker owners from all shores ofLake PREPARED BT THE RENO AO CIM ADVCRTISIM COUNCIL Tahoe are invited to participate in the' program which is thought to be the first time boats have district in development of plans been included in the vehicle check UNITED FUND PROGRAM of WASHOE COUNTY routine. and helps carry them to completion, if the help is requested. Though the U. S.

Coast Guard Resort Hotel Lease Proposal Dropped in Clark and other official agencies will Once the plan for the foreign! be represented, no violations will language laboratory is approved, be written at the checking sta the school district calls for bids tion. Boats with defects discovered stallation since it is a parochial school. A more elaborate installation is also in use at the University of Nevada. USE ACCEPTED Raymond A. McGuire, director of the curriculum division of the Department of Education, said the growth from zero to nine installations in a year's time is an indication of the acceptance of the use of the language labs in public schools.

"This is typical nationally," he said. Across the nation, the number of installations have increased from 64 in 1958 to more than 2,500 by the summer of 1961. The new method of teaching for the installations. Here again CARSON CITY (AP) A during the check may be re the state department comes into; 5700.000 deal to put the Thunder- paired at a marina of the own- the picture to check the proposals' bird Hotel of Las Vegas under er's choice and upon inspection new management has been called by Cox committee will be issued to insure' the equipment will meet the required neds. The state department also helps a safety sticker.

The award stick er will be useful, should the boat to train teachers in the operation be boarded at a later date by an and use of the new method. How official agency, as an indication ever, teachers are encouraged to that every safety precaution is off, the State Gaming Control Board chairman confirmed Sunday. Edward A. Olsen said he saw no problem in allowing six investors to withdraw their application for a license in the gambling resort. The license bid, filed three months ago, was to be acted on by the Nevada Gaming Commission later this month.

Thunderbird President Marion go to foreign language institutes at colleges and universities to in order and the owner is aware of and has complied with stand foreign language, with the em Following are the firms who FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF NEVADA BELL OF NEVADA SIERRA PACIFIC POWER COMPANY NEVADA BANK OF COMMERCE SECURITY NATIONAL BANK ISBELL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY HARRAH'S CLUB UNION FEDERAL SAVINGS LOAN C. H. SKIPPER REAL volunteered to lend executives: HAROLD'S CLUB READY MIX CONCRETE COMPANY RENO NEWSPAPERS, INC. MARTIN IRON WORKS SEWELLS MARKETS SEARS ROEBUCK AND COMPANY PIONEER TITLE COMPANY MONTGOMERY WARD ESTATE AND INSURANCE phasis on speaking it properly. ard boating regulations.

does not do away with the pro become familiar with the new type of teaching method. The language laboratory requires a higher caliber of teach cess of learning to read and write it. It supplements it, Philip D. Smith, foreign language consult er, than the older process, but educators say, that is exactly announced in Las Vegas, ant for the department, explained Striking Cab Drivers Seek New Sessions they are striving for at all times. Through use of the language oaimuciv uidt jit? was invoKing an agreement that permits him to terminate a I laboratories, about 50 per cent of the classroom time is devoted to learning to speak the foreign lease of the hotel if his health As to the high cost for the initial installation, educators explain the laboratories will last from five to 10 years, improves.

LAS VEGAS (AP) Strikir" language properly, and, the re and even with maintenance costs maining 50 per cent to reading and writing it, McGuire and Smith of from three to five per cent said. of the original investment, the Olsen said he was told by tele-! cab driver representatives phone that Hicks and Charles I they would try to set up Rich, an investor, had agreed in: negotiating sessions wih man-writing to cancel the lease. agement today after weekend The leasing corporation was meetings proved fruitless, headed by Wendell Fletcher, El Teamster officials met Saturday Monte, aircraft executive, and Sunday with the Yellow Cab price tab for each student is less than a penny a day. "It provides intensive practice in hearing and speaking foreign languages, to add this skill to those previously taught in reading and writing," Smith explained. and Jerome Steinbaum, Los the city's largest taxi serv-geles real estate man.

Other in- ice. A Teamster spokesman re- "It enables the teacher to reach ported no progress in settling the vestors were Harry Ulmer, Salt Lake City accountant, and Las week-cld walkout of 325 drivers against nine companies. House Group Will Hear Park Plan for Coast WASHINGTON (AP) A House Vegas gamblers Sydney Wyman, George Duckworth and Rich. but we need even more help to do the job! If you can spare an executive, or if you are a retired person who would like to help in a really worthwhile local cause please contact the entire class, while before he could reach and have a response from only one student at a time with the spoken language," McGuire added. In other developments, a bid of strikers to start their own cab company will go before a Nevada Public Service Commis sion meeting today.

Honest Man Repays Debt Drivers have been offering free transportation in their own cars MCRAE, Ark. (AP) The man pending a commission ruling. Law officers reported no vio lence between union and nonunion drivers. There were several IRNIE ISCIHIARIS) incidents last week National Parks subcommittee will conduct a third hearing Aug. 11 on the proposed establishment of the Point Reyes National Seashore area in California.

In previous sessions in March and July, the committee heard from interior department advocates of the recreational development and from ranchers opposing federal acquisition of their lands on the Point Reyes Peninsula, 30 miles north of San Francisco. Rep. Clem Miller, sponsor of the Point Reyes Seashore Bill, said the hearing next Friday will provide an opportunity for public witnesses to testify. who borrowed $5 from Herschel V. Bruce 17 or 18 years ago has paid his debt.

"Here is the $5 that I owed your son," the unidentified man wrote Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Bruce.

"I wish I could give if to him in person but I can't." Herschel V. Bruce was killed in World War II action in France United Fund Executive Director Mercury is the only metnl which remains fkpiid nt ordinitry temperatures. The language lab is basically the use of a system of tape recorders and microphones, which allows the student to hear the language spoken properly and make responses, comparing his pronounciation and intonations with those of the speaker. LEVEL OXE LAB There are simpler installations which allow the student to hear the language properly spoken, but they do not provide him with the opportunity to replay and compare his use with that of the expert. This is called a Level One lab.

There are also more complex installations which allow the student not only to hear his own voice, but to record it for later comparisons with the expert speaker. These are called Level Three labs, and are the type in use at the university. It is the type with recorders and microphones that allows the student to listen to the expert, reply and hear his own words, but not record them, in use at the nine public schools and at Bishop July 11, 1941. CUT UPKEEP 1PA THESE ARE THE 16 AGENCIES THAT PARTICIPATE IN THE UNITED FUND EXPENSE The late Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago Trubine, originated the All-Star baseball game in 1933. TV SERVICE For Expert TV Service call Lusetti's your set will be serviced with the finest parts and latest testing equipment.

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