Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee recommends that extensive use of lectures be added to first-year courses, particularly in the opening weeks. "The subject matter of the lectures would be the meaning and grammar of a set of patterns basic to the language." This would free section meetings for more personal approach, but the report emphasizes that sections should not be used for pronunciation practice and grammatical pattern drill, "which can best be done alone in language laboratory...
German A was criticized, for example, because it does not give a "coherent presentation of grammar." The report says that "the aural-oral method should be used side-by-side" with a more suitable and rigorous text than the current grammar employed by the course...
...Richards describes it, the course considers "illusion, individual differences in visual imagery, apprehension and interpretation; relative legibility and intelligibility of visual presentations; cultural differences in conventions of representation and decoration, and in the articulation of space; structural analysis of signfields; codification; the dimensions of meaning; visual analogues to logic, grammar and rhetoric; visual metonymy and metaphor; symbolization and iconography; valuation; tradition; distinctive characters of mass media (magazine, radio, film, TV); the roles of visual presentation in the design of instruction...
...Treason is all the more remarkable be cause its author is a complete amateur, a flooring-materials salesman who wrote the book (his first) in the children's playroom of his home in Glen Ridge, N.J., and even taught himself French by pasting scraps of a French grammar on file cards which he carried with him on selling trips...
...moment, Whatmough is working on several projects. He is preparing a grammar of the dialects of ancient Gaul to accompany his monumental work, Dialects of Ancient Gaul(1949), and he is also working on his autobiography (which, he insists, will not be published during his lifetime). In addition he is trying to "train" himself for retirement to a quiet routine at home with his wife. All his life, Whatmough has gotten up no later than four in the morning; he claims he does his best work at that time of day. "Now, I try never to get up before four...