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/. /. E. C. Studies
LANGUAGE TEACHING AND THE TALKING FILM
INTRODUCTION
Understanding cannot be complete without sensorial perception.
Leibnitz.
In the early days of the invention of cinematography during the last century, it was first supposed that the importance of the discovery Would become more prominent in the scientific field. Edison was of this opinion, whereas, as a matter of fact, the cinema developed more particularly in the amusement and recreational field, and it would seem today that nothing can alter this development. An analogous phenomenon was witnessed when the sound film and the talking film were introduced, especially during the period when these inventions had not yet surpassed the experimental laboratory stage. I will quote later on a portion of an article published in 1922, when, in Europe at any rate, the development of the sound and talking film had not aroused any great interest. In this article, the readers' attentions are drawn to the possible utility of the talking film for teaching foreign languages. Today, now that even the small cinemas offer the public sound and talking films, the idea of utilizing this magnificent invention for scientific purposes has not entirely disappeared, and has indeed been actually made use of in a number of interesting ways, although the chief interest of the public is directed towards the sound and talking film as a form of amusement, which view the trade endorses, believing it the only profitable way of using it.
In the following pages I will endeavour to illustrate a new method of teaching languages by means of the talking film. Though this method is based on scientific data, and realized by rational methods, it is not my object to propose or recommend in any way scientific films. We have to consider our pupils as coming from all classes of the people, and therefore comparable, socially speaking, to the public of the cinema.
Although the general notion of our method of applying the silent and talking film to the teaching of foreign languages is not entirely new, the manner of preparation and its scientific bases are, nevertheless, innovations, and I am anxious to set them forth in detail, because I hold that the moment has come to give them a practical application.
The essentials of a method lie in the results. Their very existence presupposes that essentially practical researches have been sought for. Unfortunately I have not yet been able to begin their practical application, and I must therefore limit myself to a purely theoretical work: I trust, however, that this defect will not be too obvious,
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