transverbalize

Example Sentences

• "But Mr. Shedd would have the boy “transverbalize” to acquire a feeling for the Latin order."
• "Thus they may learn strictly idiomatic French and attain some spoken French that is not merely English transverbalized."
• "The great majority of pupils confess that they do not even try to read the Latin; they begin at once to translate or to decipher or to transverbalize.[…]5 Translating (that is, transverbalizing) a series of Latin sentences—almost meaningless in themselves and without any discoverable connection with each other.[…]And we must train them in habits of fitting response other than merely transverbalizing the printed or spoken word."
• "He is not reading but deciphering, not translating but "transverbalising".[…]The matter of critical importance is that there shall be no transverbalizing the passage, or translation in the ordinary school use of that term.[…]divert it into a process of acquiring deciphering or transverbalizing ability."
• "However, the next time I simply indicated the beginning of the sentence to prevent word-calling, or transverbalizing, which many teachers mistake for “reading back,” and to assist in the development of a wide eye-span, so necessary in good reading and absolutely essential to the stenographer in making perfect transcripts."
• "The so-called translation ability in which a pupil learns to use a lexicon to decipher the meaning of a page is really ‘transverbalizing.’ He may become skillful, but he is still deciphering, not reading."