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...works, Nadav makes effortless and intelligent conversation. His English grammar is only fair, but the range of his vocabulary is astounding. ("I learned to speak from foreigners," says Nadav. "From foreign girls," chimes in a friend, and Nadav only smiles...
What makes China so inscrutable these days is not the mystery of events so much as their exaggeration. Rhetoric and hyperbole are built into Chinese grammar, and the Chinese by nature are prone to overstatement. None practice verbal inflation with greater verve than the South Chinese, whose largest city, Canton, has for the past two months been the main arena of struggle between those promoting Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and those opposing it. Cantonese wall posters and the tales of travelers coming out to nearby Hong Kong have painted a lurid portrait of a city racked...
Spindly and bespectacled, Kroyer's own background smacks more of a dropout than a Danish Da Vinci. A haberdasher's son who never went be yond grammar school, Kroyer even now winces at technical journals on the ground that "you risk reading yourself stupid." He explains his self-schooled skills by saying that "the recognition of a demand works on me like a magnet. I then set out to define the problems and correct them...
...practical effort to break the boredom of repetitive drill in grammar, spelling, vocabulary and composition has been successfully carried out in a two-year experiment at Purdue University. Called "Project English" and financed by Purdue and the U.S. Office of Education, it ignored the traditional separate classes in these topics for some 4,800 seventh-graders in 14 Midwest cities. Instead, the students were immersed in some relatively difficult but intriguing works of literature, on the theory that reading good writers who have interesting things to say is a more natural way to acquire good English than by attacking...
...papers about them, acted out some of the roles, prepared newspapers based on the stories. At the end of the project, compared with kids in regular classes, they showed superior ability in reading comprehension, understanding words, effective written expression. They did just as well as the regular students in grammar and spelling...