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For Bilingualism Problem

By ATANORS FARRELL Canadian Staff Writer

It’s one inne te be able to eonjugate a French verb. It’s eften quite another, to be able to order breakfast er ask for

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In some of the larger cities| schools are putting the direct | method into practice in lan- guage laboratories, where the student can hear French spoken | on records or on tape and try

directions on a trip through the | | to imitate it.

Quebee countrys

Many

speaking Canadian high schools

“lea rned French’’ with- | eut learning how to speak it.

A Cross-Canada Survey by ] The Canadian Press shows that | attention is being centred this problem as never before. The ideal solution, in the) opinion of many, would be to expose children to French at an|

ide. aduates of English. |

In Halifax, for example, the, school board plans to have four | laboratories in operation next fall. The labs, each with space

| ~ 20, students at a time, will

early age when they can learn)

more simply by listening and imitating than by any conscious effort. This frequently happens on the reverse side of the prob- Jem—in Quebec, where many children exposed to English ac- quire ‘this second language more opens than a — if

confined to school ins'

Dr. Wilder Penfield, oe rl

Montreal neuro - surgeon and long-time advocate of bilingual | education in Canada, says! children can easily learn two| or more languages if they start between the ages of four and 10 — “preferably nearer four." |

ORAL METHOD

The method Dr. Penfield rec- |

ommends. is the direct or oral)

method—learning a language without translating, or refer- ence to any other language. It| is the way . child acquires his mother-tongu

But supp cae hts as & bee lingual community? Education departments in most English- apeaking provinces say they do not even have an adequate sup- ply of French-speaking teach- |

ers.

Dr. Archie MacKinnon, re- search director for the Toronto board of education, says no one has found the answer to the) basic oblem of tea

be set up in two senior and two junior high schools.

There is a trend in many | | parts the eountry toward | starting French earlier and de- voting the first year or two to oral instruction,

In New Brunswick, where| French is the mother- a . | 40 per cent of the school | lation but English is the official | language, French is in general

started earlier than in any) other English - speaking yey ince.

English - speaking schools in | in

New Brunswick may start French in Grade V and must}

start it by Grade VII. Starting | .

next fall, it will be permissive | from Grade Ill and compulsory | from Grade V.

D. A. Middlemiss, director hi curriculum and research for | New Brunswick education an partment, s ays the present pro- gram ‘‘places emphasis on the) conversational approach but, unfortunately, many teachers who are not too fluent rely on a formal study of the language. | Consequently, the program has | not been | as effective as | might be. ORAL BASIS

Nova Scotia makes the second earliest start, in Grade VII. For several years, however, Halifax schools have_ been starting Fr

it | Grade IV and t

until secondary schoo!

Ottawa’s public . have been starting French in Grade| II since 1958, using the direct) method exclusively. |

Prince Edward Island begins |

French in Grade VIII except in| a few urban schools where it may start in Grade VII. The) starting level was lowered from | Grade IX last fall as an expe-

ent.

CHANGE IN B.C,

British Columbia will start | French in Grade VIII next fall; instead of Grade X as at pres- ent. The change was recom- | mended by a recent provincial royal commission on education.

The provincial education de- partment says instruction will be mainly oral in Grade VIII but will remain more formal! in

POET FROST GETS MEDAL

a ARENGTON (AP)—Poet

rost got a meda! on i et onde Monday an tossed complimentary nose- gays to President Kennedy, en President Eisenhower

remier Khrushchev oe said of Kennedy: “A nice Jrish weakness for po- etry."

The poet described Fisen- ower as “a iine old digni- tary, a fine old general.”

ia of the Soviet Premier he said:

“What a grand man! _ a cares He’s an enemy o mine, of course, but think ¢ his fears—of us in front of him, of what’s around him, of the naioure behind him, And it doesn’t seem to bother him a bit. Some day, of course, he may slip, but he’s a ter-

ELLERSLIE

Audrey and Lorne Gillis are |

IDreaded Mafia Holds Fear

(The Guardian, Charlottetown, Thurs. Mar. 29, 1962. 8

ants on trial that “I alone” at- mnrnen to kill a Mazzarino po-

myself of a heavy weight on my censcience,” He said volice were holding his sister and. brother-in-law and “assured me they would not be freed if : did

a Azzolina, 28, startled | the court by o— asked to

Over CourtAs Monks Tried

| to fo:

| as

ESSINA, Sicily (AP)—The invisible hand of the dreaded Mafia has dropped a net of fear over the assizes court here, where four Capuchin monks are

| on trial for murder and extor-

tion

Terror stalked the country-

side around their Maggarino

monastery in the mountains 'of central Sicily four years ago.

Sums of money were extorted |

| from wealthy farmers and shop- | M | keepers, Refusal to pay meant

a smashe’ shop, a home con

| sumed by fire, a sudden beat-

ing—or death, like the shotgun | Moging of farmer Angelo Can- a

The four bearded friars were

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP)—You| don't have to be a millionaire rget the cost of living, bask

in the balmy breeze of the Car- ibbean, visit glamour cities such mi and, in general, just

| fish \ one enjoy life.

t Ted Rogers, a 63- Bway retired Canadian post- man from Middle Sackville, N.B. A bachelor, Rogers started out on a two-week trial cruise in a newly bought second-hand | schooner, That was 2'2 yea | 8&0, and he has been sailing |

patients in Prince County Hos-|

~ al.

Mr. and Mrs. James Morrison and family, Alberton were re- cent visitors of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Morrison and Mr. and Mrs. John Biggar, Tyne

the higher grades. | Valley. An experiment in starting) Mr. and Mrs, Earl Ellis, oral French in Grade V_ has/| O'Leary, were ercent visitors of

| been under way for four years

22 classes throughout B.C.,

particularly in the Victoria

rea, and will be evaluated at

the end of the present school rr.

uae the other end of the coun-

try, in Newfoundland French of-

avd starts in Grade V but Ss

Mr. and Mrs. James Burleigh.

Mr, and Mrs. Albert Sharpe and Mr. and Mrs. William Grant were recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Reeves, Bedeque.

Miss Kathleen Ellis, Summer- side was a recent visitor of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Luther Ellis.

Drew Blasts U.K. Program On Canada |:

LONDON (CP) —— prey, Canadian high com er in London has again an oe a recent British television | program * life in Canada. Thos 0 know Canada are well toad how dishonest and in fact preposterous’’ the pro-

arrested, with three peasants,

two years ago. Police said they

were the authors of the terror,

along with monastery gardener

Carmele Lo Bartolo. His death

in a prison cell after his arrest was listed as suicide.

The crimes aseribed to the defendants — Brother Venazio, 35, Brother Carmelo, 83, Brother | Vittorio, 42, and Brother Agrip- five. 39 — wear the ‘ook of the

MAFIA GIVES ORDERS

In Sicily the Mafia says whether a new shop may open or an old shop close, how much “tax’’ must be paid into its il- ‘legal coffers, prescribes the punishment for failing to pay,

‘Shoestring Luxury Solved By Retired N.B.

Postman

on a shoestring ever since. Rogers, who docked here Monday for supplies, says he has financed his sea-going life of ease on his $175 monthly pen-

and protects interests and cli- ents alike.

With the trial going inte the third week, the friars have testified that it was fear that got them invelved = ley evil doings around Mazza

They told how ee forced them to co-operate in the extortion racket or be killed.

Brother Carmelo explained why he didn’t go to the police:

afraid. I was nat afraid for myself, but I was afraid for the monestery.”

DIE FOR TALKING On the second Bred he testi- fied, the friar sa | Yes, I was raid for myself as well. Because the malefac- | tors had the power to beat me and kill me. At Mazzarino, who doesn't talk lives, who talks s.” | Brother Carmelo never iden- tified the malefactors. He did not use the word Mafia. But his

moaning was clear to all Sicil- |

“eo first break in the seven | defendants stout insistence of in-

| speak and said *

I intend to free | not name my aceomplices.

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“ nocence came with the ad- pa 7 gad still managed to save’ mission by one of the peas- HEADING HOMEWARD

After taking on provisions, he plans to head homeward to New Finishing Brunswie Hardware Tani ned and bearded, the and small, graying Canadian said ah i n ars' he bought the 35 - foot, two- i masted sailing vessel from a Building Supplies end after retiring. He took the for schooner—the Jolly Rogers—out a P for a get-acquainted run, plan- ning only a short cruise. Larry Ss “I never intended to get out i ‘uae ta hs ete Restaurant “Then the first mate of a fe boat showed me how to “me 2 The chart and compass ; mough, I nag to the eT 1 Rogers | ocena to d | “Bo, I tried it again and kept Har ware | going south,” Among his ports of call were Co. Ltd. |the Bahamas, Berry Islands, Exuma Islands and “every “If It’s Hardware large city on the east coast, We Have It.” from Miami to Portland, Me.”

gram really was, he said Tues- ay in presenting design com- petition prizes given by the Ar- | borite Company of Canada, Drew, in a banquet speech earlier this month, described the hour-long program Living With a Giant as “‘silly trash.” He said Tuesday that many people in Britain, after seeing the program, be “under the impression that we (Cana- dians) manufacture nothing of our own, have no research fa- cilities and are merely hewers of wood and drawers of water for the United States.”

the shortage of qualified teachers that most schools do not start it until)

mostly in the St. John's area,

ve Manitoba a local school | board may - oral French in extbook courses | | in Grade VII, but it Is not com- | pul until Grade IX. The} | provineial education depart- | ment does not plan to introduce an earlier start but has required | an emphasis on oral instruction |

teacher is available. Henry Janzen, curriculum di-

Grade IX. Several schools,| rector for the Saskatchewan ed-

ucation department, says local

‘have a fateadqoed oral French in boards are encouraged to start de

ench earlier than Grade IX ont it is a matter of obtaining | ualified teachers.’

Pupils were seldom taught to speak French ‘but this is one of our aims.” As better teachers became available, more use| would be made of the oral ap- | proach.

French makes it latest start

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ench in Grade V on a strictly) where French is given in the) jn Alberta, in Grade X, but i

oral basis and last year it oe started in Grade IV in: some cases. |

Ontario's regular program) | calls for French to be started |

lower grades and is increasing the use of language laboratories in the upper grades. Experimentally, a three-year | terminal course will be,

has been introduced in Grade IV in some Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge schools as an The method

experimen re-

mains largely formal and is not

chin language effectively when that| im Grade VIII but, since 1955,) launched in several parts of | intended to — the pupil for language is seldom spoken in| ay school boards have been Manitoba next fall for high| fluent _coaversatio

the pupil's environment. The. traditional method of

e to get permission to start . in primary school.

school students not intending to

C. Byrn Some 85| go to university. French, pre- seseusbont of schools for Albe

Dr. z chief super-

rta,

teaching, Bin in Canadian| boards have done so—“a very | sented along conversational! says the education department

high ools has been that of formal study—learning vocabu- ammar and syntax from |

conabanie and then applying this | 4nd

material by translating from | and into French.

French is usually required for | full matriculation and, if this Is |

‘But if we say one of the ob- jectives is make persons con-

v tent in speak- | - the lengthen, we have a

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The TV program produced by Associated Rediffusion, concen- | | trated mainly on American in- fluences in Canadian life. Fol- | lowing Drew's first criticism the eee said that its writer had reported Canadian life as

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