to its TEACHING METHODS
with electronic equipment With the installation of modern electronic equipment, Moody Bible Institute has taken another giant forward step, in the teaching of lan guages. New technique being used is finding wide acceptance in secular schools, colleges and the armed forces.
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MBI's NEW MODERN LANGUAGE LABORATORY
consists of eight steel booths, each fully equipped with double tape recorder, microphone and earphones.
T e a c h i n g Speech a t MB I
A new three-room speech recording center has been established at MBI and will be used for classes in practice teaching, preaching, public speaking and storytelling. It is possible to record from these rooms in a central control center at one time. Teacher can signal by means of intercom system. With these facilities, student will have at least two recordings of speeches made dur ing a semester. Then he will have opportu nity to listen to it critically by himself, or together with teacher for his evaluation. New TV classrooms Two of the rooms in the speech center are equipped with closed circuit television. As
W ha t n ew lab m eans to MBI studen ts , , . 1. Affords opportunity of personal lan guage study with the help of electronic tutor. By means of a double tape re corder, student can listen to native speak the foreign language and listen to himself repeating the same words. He can compare and evaluate as many times as he wishes. Or if he prefers, he can listen again to the “master,” mak ing a new recording of his own version by automatically erasing his previous attempts.
etition as he needs, with nothing to stop him but his own ambitions and talents. 3. Currently, the MBI language library consists of more than 250 tapes in Span ish and French. 4. Daily classwork includes listening assignments of classic literature, Bible passages and basic conversation. 5. Speed of learning is greatly in creased and research studies indicate, from a qualitative point of view, that students who have been exposed to lab methods do far better than those who have had no contact with the lab.
2 . Student can progress entirely at his own rate of learning, with as much rep
While this laboratory method is revolutionary and the facilities new and exciting—it is only a tool. At MBI this effective tool is helping train future missionaries to reach the 2,000 tongues as yet without the gospel. A t Moody y o u can c h o o se from 8 basic co u rses .. . General Bible, Pastors Course, Christian Education, Missionary Course, Sacred Music, Christian Education-Music , Jewish Missions and Missionary Technical Course-all are tuition free! Accredited by Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges
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student speaks or preaches before a TV camera, the teacher and part of class retire to a small viewing room where they watch student on TV set. This permits discussion and evaluation of performance while speech is in progress, without interruption. As in the language lab, these new facili ties enrich the class experience of student and increase teaching efficiency of instruc tor. Student has the opportunity of observ ing and evaluating many speeches during a semester, benefiting from his own perform ances as well as those of fellow students.
Get applications in early! To avoid disappointment, students wishing to apply for admittance are urged to complete forms well In advance of semester in which
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