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...Color serves as an extra dimension to help the learner associate the image of the letters with the sound until he has mastered it," explains Gattegno. "It makes nonphonetic English a phonetic language without changing the traditional spellings." Once sounds are learned, the rainbow fades. Class books are in bladk on white, and students write in ordinary black. "Within six weeks they seem to rely mostly on form, referring back to the color charts when they have problems in working out words," reports a teacher...
...Learning sticks better when the learner gets a fast, meaningful reward (the principle of programmed instruction). Rest periods make learning more effective: six ten-minute periods of hard practice usually get better results than one full hour. The best way to remember something is to go to sleep right after learning...
...faced with 700 yawning faces, the big-campus lecturer yearns for one passionate learner-and this is what the good con man impersonates. "The very first lecture, the one everybody cuts, is the most important in the course," says a Wisconsin senior. Moving in fast, the con man lovingly establishes his own name with the prof. After that, says a Princeton honors student, one need only "sit in the first two rows of the lecture room and maintain continuous eye contact with the lecturer. Make him glad he's looking at you. Give him that receptive gaze, which implies...
...have done would have been to be a little more false and flowery," groused Stirling Moss, 33, after Acton (West London) Chief Driving Examiner Cyril Smith flunked him in his bid to renew a lapsed motor-scooter license. But he could still buzz around with the red "L" learner plates on the purple scooter. And there went the retired auto-racing champion, looking pretty purple himself in top hat and tails-until he explained that he was on his way to his sister's wedding reception...
Getting a driver's license in Britain is an L of a job. Tyro motorists are forced by law to hang a learner's "L" on their car, are thus the object of gibes and sneers from every hot-rodder and truck driver on the road. None of this fazed Margaret Hunter, a spinster schoolteacher from Cheshire who at 65 finally decided that it was time for her to get her license...