Southeastern Oklahoma State University - Savage Yearbook (Durant, OK)

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 ■ Dr. Eugene Slaughter, head of the English department, and Mildred Riling, English pro- fessor, discuss a new study that Miss Riling has undertaken. A $23,232 U.S. Office of Education grant is sponsoring the children’s language de- velopment study. DR. E. E. SLAUGHTER Head of Department DR. LEE H. BALL Assistant Professor MILDRED RILING Associate Professor DR. MARGARET O’RILEY Associate Professor RUTH HATCHETT Assistant Professor CHARLES CHOATE MARY M. FRYE Journalism Instructor Assistant Professor of Journalism CHARLES ANDREWS DAVID ISON Instructor Instructor CATHERINE GREEN Instructor

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The second summer workshop will be co-sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English this summer. Dr. Eugene Slaughter, whose work in NCTE is known throughout the nation, has continued to work as a leader in improving the quality of English teaching. The department was given a grant this year by the United States Department of Education for the purpose of making a survey of English students in southeastern Oklahoma. The survey is headed by Mildred Riling and specifically concerns the oral and linguistic abilities of elementary students in the area. These projects added to the English department’s primary goal of training teachers. Leading educational writers have underscored the importance of this effort and have termed this goal as a, . . never ending challenge for proficiency in English study.”

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Perhaps the most difficult foreign language to teach is English. Helen Scroggins’ class—English as a foreign language—has practical meaning for the two students above, one from Mexico and one from Japan. Students in Gene Franks’ Spanish lab lis- ten to authentic recordings in the new facilities opened this year. HELEN SCROGGINS Instructor New quarters in the administration building and new and modern equipment in the lab have helped foreign language classes accommodate the flow of interested students. Numerous tape recordings in Spanish, French, German, and Russian have added to the department’» ability in instructing foreign and area students. Besides modern foreign languages, the department offers classical and historical courses in the study of foreign countries. Foreign Language GENE FRANKS Instructor