Frank Otto
American linguist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frank Otto was an American educator, pioneer in computer-assisted language learning , entrepreneur, and the founding executive director of CALICO . Early academic career Otto received his PhD in 1960 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During his program there he conducted dissertation research in the area of foreign languages in the elementary school. With support from publisher Heath de Rochemont, a division of D.C. Heath, he investigated alternative approaches to staffing foreign language programs. His projects involved working with the publisher’s efforts to broadcast their Parlons Français program to over two million schoolchildren in the Midwest from a DC-3 airplane flying overhead. In addition to his degree in Educational Administration and Curriculum Development, Otto also received his state certification as a teacher of Spanish, History, and English.
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