Word: lingualism
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...minute he takes his blindfold off, at which point he cannot help but fall in. The movie contains several similar gems of poetic understanding of human predicaments. Chaplin, forced to work as a singing waiter, loses the words to his song, and is forced to sing in multi-lingual gibberish, thus marking the debut of Chaplin's voice in films. By the film's end, the tramp and the gamine walk off in the sunset, no doubt looking for other great movies...
...auditory discrimination handicap is an inability to distinguish adequately between sounds. Harvard's reliance upon the audio-lingual method of teaching a language makes a student with this handicap unable to participate or to learn properly in these courses...
Besides using words as images, artists often use them with images--poster art is a prime example of such lingual-visual communication because its declared purpose is to communicate...
...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "My Name Is Children" studies the learning experiences of two children at the progressive Nova School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where students are exposed to a technologically advanced library, games that illustrate the techniques of modern propagandists, the audio-lingual study of foreign languages, and training in geometry and algebra from kindergarten...
...Peace Corps, which last as long as twelve weeks, are a common-sense blend of inventiveness, idealism and practical pointers. Languages, ranging from Iran and Afghanistan's Farsi to Yugoslavia's Serbo-Croatian, are taught by natives in classes of ten or fewer, using audio-lingual techniques developed by U.S. Army language schools. Training officers for the Peace Corps are generally about the same age as their students, frequently have fresh but forceful ways of preparing them for expectable hardships. To give . her 28 Afghanistan-bound charges some notion of what they face, Anne Janeway, 30, deprived them...