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In article <4ccgsv$jpa@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>, infoware@ix.netcom.com
(Dave C ) wrote:

> We are so EXCITED that we have to share this with everyone! We just
> finished reading books on accelerated learning and have tried it. It is
> fantastic. You learn  2 - 10 times faster. Comprehend more. And the
> "side effects" are great, too! You become more relaxed, focused, have
> easy recall and more.
> 
> We'd like to know your response. Have you tried it? Have you heard of
> it? [it's been around since the 1960's] Any comments? ANYTHING!
> 
> Please email your comments.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Dave

Dear Dave,  Welcome to AL.  If you want to learn a foreign language to a
speaking level, just go to Continuing Education at the University of
Houston or the University of Arizona for one week.  You are right, amazing
results are available in this highly-researched and published area.  For
teachers, a 40-hour training course gets you started.  An international
conference is held annually and this year it is January 11-14 at the Hyatt
Hotel in Orlando.  Hundreds of the world's most effective AL teachers and
business trainers gather and share their skills.  To contact the national
office, call the International Alliance for Learning at 800-783-6868 (in
Canada call 800-229-1424).  This office is preparing a home page on the
web to be activated soon.  We have bibliographies for a number of topics.
The book "Accelerated Learning" by Colin Rose is available from
800-727-7620.

Summer workshops for teachers are often given in several locations,
including Iowa State University, University of Houston, Cambridge College
of Education near Boston, and others.  The technology applies to all
levels of schooling and to all subject matter.  We even have a program for
pre-school and primary children call SMART.

We will have a regional conference here in Winona sometime next October.

Best wishes,  Lyelle Palmer
Office of Accelerated Learning
Winona State University, Minnesota

Hi,

Wow, that sounds really interesting.  Now, what is it
exactly?  Books/manuals on how to learn faster?

Curious and interested,
Nancy

Hi,

Wow, that sounds really interesting.  Now, what is it
exactly?  Books/manuals on how to learn faster?

Curious and interested,
Nancy

On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Lyelle Palmer wrote:

> In article <4ccgsv$jpa@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>, infoware@ix.netcom.com
> (Dave C ) wrote:
> 
> > We are so EXCITED that we have to share this with everyone! We just
> > finished reading books on accelerated learning and have tried it. It is
> > fantastic. You learn  2 - 10 times faster. Comprehend more. And the
> > "side effects" are great, too! You become more relaxed, focused, have
> > easy recall and more.
> > 
> > We'd like to know your response. Have you tried it? Have you heard of
> > it? [it's been around since the 1960's] Any comments? ANYTHING!
> > 
> > Please email your comments.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> Dear Dave,  Welcome to AL.  If you want to learn a foreign language to a
> speaking level, just go to Continuing Education at the University of
> Houston or the University of Arizona for one week.  

Yeah, like Berlitz does.  After a week, all you can speak is "where is
the post office" and things like that.  The trick to this endeavor is
they severely limit the scope of what they set out to do, so that then they
can accomplish such limited goals in an apparently short period of time.

Where these language courses fall down is when you need to be able to
say something a little more original.  Then you need to know at least
a bit of the syntax of the langauge so that even if you have to look
up every word you need, you can say them in the right order so that
a native speaker will have a fighting chance of understanding what
you're driving at.  (A bit of morphology is indispensible too, 
unless you want to say all your verbs in their infinitive form, which
makes the natives fall down laughing.)  However, the modern day language 
teacher ridicules the imparting of knowledge of these matters, calling it 
all "grammar", which is a nasty word in their circles.  So all they do 
with their students is wander around reeling off cliches, slogans, and an
occasional phrase of courtesy at one another, and they call that 
"speaking" foreign language X.  What bunk!


Michel Martin Devine
Author of "How to Learn a Foreign Language", 1975 (now out of print)

A person who by dint of his own efforts and devices, managed to
master 3 languages to the extent that he was accepted in universities
in these same langauges studying the same curriculum and course work
as their NATIVE SPEAKERS, working in the areas of mathematics, physics
and philosophy.  That is far above and beyond the meager goals
set by the foreign language teaching profession (not to mention their
accomplishments).

In article <Wnlpalmer-0501961228140001@199.17.136.50> Wnlpalmer@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Lyelle Palmer) writes:
>From: Wnlpalmer@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Lyelle Palmer)
>Subject: Re: ==>> ACCELERATED LEARNING!! Have you tried it? IT WORKS!! <<==

[snippety-snip]

>To contact the national
>office, call the International Alliance for Learning at 800-783-6868 (in
>Canada call 800-229-1424).

Lyelle, would you be so kind as to supply a postal address for those of us who 
are not in the US.  Are there any affiliated groups "Downunder" - ie Australia 
or New Zealand?

>This office is preparing a home page on the
>web to be activated soon.  

Would love to know when this gets activated.

Thanks
Justine

In article <leej1.47.000E7515@lincoln.ac.nz>, leej1@lincoln.ac.nz (Justine
Lee) wrote:

> In article <Wnlpalmer-0501961228140001@199.17.136.50>
Wnlpalmer@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Lyelle Palmer) writes:
> >From: Wnlpalmer@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Lyelle Palmer)
> >Subject: Re: ==>> ACCELERATED LEARNING!! Have you tried it? IT WORKS!! <<==
> 
> [snippety-snip]
> 
> >To contact the national
> >office, call the International Alliance for Learning at 800-783-6868 (in
> >Canada call 800-229-1424).
> 
> Lyelle, would you be so kind as to supply a postal address for those of
us who 
> are not in the US.  Are there any affiliated groups "Downunder" - ie
Australia 
> or New Zealand?
> 
> >This office is preparing a home page on the
> >web to be activated soon.  
> 
> Would love to know when this gets activated.
> 
> Thanks
> Justine

Goodaey Justine.  In Australia contact Annette Cam, Accelerative Learning
Centre, Mt Druitt ERC, Hindemith Ave, Emerton 2770; Phone (02) 628 4844;
628 4422, FAX: (02) 628 2413.  Another contact may be Ted Cox at (02)
673-2852 (FAX: 623-4652).  The AL Update is published monthly based at the
NSW Dept. of School Education and Annette. Many trainings are listed in
the Update. Since my information on NZ is not current, I suggest that you
talk to these contacts.

International Alliance for Learning is at 1725 South Coast Highway,
Oceanside, California 92054-5319.

Best wishes,  Lyelle

In article <Wnlpalmer-0501961228140001@199.17.136.50>,
Wnlpalmer@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Lyelle Palmer) wrote:

> In article <4ccgsv$jpa@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>, infoware@ix.netcom.com
> (Dave C ) wrote:
> 
> > We are so EXCITED that we have to share this with everyone! We just
> > finished reading books on accelerated learning and have tried it. It is
> > fantastic. You learn  2 - 10 times faster. Comprehend more. And the
> > "side effects" are great, too! You become more relaxed, focused, have
> > easy recall and more.
> > 
> > We'd like to know your response. Have you tried it? Have you heard of
> > it? [it's been around since the 1960's] Any comments? ANYTHING!
> > 
> > Please email your comments.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> Dear Dave,  Welcome to AL.  If you want to learn a foreign language to a
> speaking level, just go to Continuing Education at the University of
> Houston or the University of Arizona for one week.  You are right, amazing
> results are available in this highly-researched and published area.  For
> teachers, a 40-hour training course gets you started.  An international
> conference is held annually and this year it is January 11-14 at the Hyatt
> Hotel in Orlando.  Hundreds of the world's most effective AL teachers and
> business trainers gather and share their skills.  To contact the national
> office, call the International Alliance for Learning at 800-783-6868 (in
> Canada call 800-229-1424).  This office is preparing a home page on the
> web to be activated soon.  We have bibliographies for a number of topics.
> The book "Accelerated Learning" by Colin Rose is available from
> 800-727-7620.
> 
> Summer workshops for teachers are often given in several locations,
> including Iowa State University, University of Houston, Cambridge College
> of Education near Boston, and others.  The technology applies to all
> levels of schooling and to all subject matter.  We even have a program for
> pre-school and primary children call SMART.
> 
> We will have a regional conference here in Winona sometime next October.
> 
> Best wishes,  Lyelle Palmer
> Office of Accelerated Learning
> Winona State University, Minnesota


Yes there seems to be a lot of initial enthusiasm about AL - unfortunately
the theory often doesn't stand up to practical scrutiny or generate the
results it claims.  In fact after a very enthusiastic start by a range of
promoters and teachers AL has been categorically dumped by the NSW
Education Dept, Australia - (not a small organisation).  It could be said
that educators who have been around the odd decade or two have seen it all
before in other guises and other reincarnations, with better outcomes.
These better outcomes  are due to the less-flashy versions and actual
applied educational theory that has been around for ages and does not
depend on some of the newly-introduced 'bits'.  Beware the halo effect of
NEW methods and very very enthusiastic teachers - check out the actual
outcomes from time to time and ask yourself if these could not have been
achieved equally well in other ways.  AL is not the only and ultimate
answer,  and just might not be the answer at all for a lot of students who
will have to wear it anyway.