Word: lingualism
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Next year the Department will offer only one beginning course in German instead of the two-which are now given. Since 1958 students with no previous instruction could choose between German A (taught by the audio-lingual method, and emphasizing speaking and understanding), and German B (designed for students who will take further courses and which concentrates on principles of grammar...
William Riley Parker, who dedicated the renovated Boylston in 1960, demanded "Now that you have nice facilities, what are you going to do with them?" The German Department's answer was to match the facilities with teaching skill. They had already brought Stein with his modern audio-lingual and anti-grammarian philosophy from Columbia in 1958. In his newly-established position as co-ordinator of Language Instruction in the German Department, Stein developed the present teacher-training course...
...Russian language, as rich and varied as English, is equally hard to comprehend and spell. With the 1917 revolution came a determined effort to clean up the lingual mess, and the regime simplified spelling rules and eliminated outdated letters. Just by liquidating the hard sign at the end of words, printers saved 70 pages on each copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace...
...African nations, which have also had a long history of suffering and oppression. The Africans welcome such aid because they admire the success of Israel in building a homogeneous state out of extremely heterogeneous elements, a fact which holds important social lessons for the new multi-racial and multi-lingual communities in Africa...
...other major activity was the seminar program on trade and political interests, held in every building offering multi-lingual translation facilities. Since the Communists had for the first time come from behind the Iron Curtain to stage a Festival, it is surprising that they would spoil the effect so badly by repressive techniques in these meetings. Some, such as the seminar on underveloped countries, traced a pre-planned picture with heavy-handed accuracy wavering only when the shouting down of contrary viewpoints neared violence...