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The Modern Language Association College Language Manual Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

J. Donald Bowen*
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles

Extract

This Project, a textbook for college students of beginning Spanish, long talked about, has come a great distance since its inception in May 1956. I report in this paper its present status, and describe the pedagogical philosophy basic to its design. The Working Committee of six has profited all along the way from the valuable help and guidance of the parent Advisory Committee and from numerous special consultants.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1959

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* An earlier draft of this paper was delivered at the University of Massachusetts symposium “Foreign Languages and the National Interest,” at Amherst, Mass., July 1958.

1 It is now in press and should be published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, barring unforeseen delays, late in 1959.

2 Two previous status reports on this project have appeared: one by Kenneth W. Mildenberger, September 1957 Supplement to PMLA, and one by Norman P. Sacks, Hispania, March 1958.

3 Working Committee members are: Dwight L. Bolinger (USC), Coordinator; J. Donald Bowen (UCLA); Agnes Marie Brady (Univ. of Kansas); Ernest F. Haden (Univ. of Texas); Lawrence Poston, Jr. (Univ. of Oklahoma); and Norman P. Sacks (Oberlin). Members of the Advisory Committee are listed in full in PMLA September Supplement 1957, p. 16.