RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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this lack of satisfactory texts is recognized in
other countries as well.
The attack on this problem is to be made
under the leadership of Mr. George A. Kennedy,
with the cooperation of the linguistic specialists
of Yale University. Experience in China and foreign
study have given Mr. Kennedy an exceptional
knowledge of colloquial Chinese and likewise
an understanding of current methods in'
teaching and in research. A preliminary trial of
thefirststage of the work on new teaching methods
will be made during the summer of 1936
at the University of Hawaii. Separate phases of
the plan are based on recent Chinese practice for
teaching 1,000 characters to illiterates, on studies
of American psychologists and linguists, and
on the methods of Professor George Z. Patrick
for intensive training in Russian by means of
graded readings within a limited vocabulary.
The manuals prepared during thefirstyear and
a half will be tested further in a language school
to be organized for 1937 and 1938. The project
has received support both from Yale University
and from the Institute of Pacific Relations.
Harvard University
Work la Oriental Art
Harvard University has received from The
Rockefeller Foundation 37,500 for the services
of a Japanese scholar working in the collections
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