Listening: 2017

martes, 29 de agosto de 2017

Manfred Spitzer’s Contribution to Language Learning Theory: Novelty & Re...

Hi there! Steve kaufman here today to talk about , today I wanna talk about repetition and novelty. And if you enjoy my videos on language learning pleae suscribe. By the way, I'm closing in one hundred thousends suscribers so I didn't know what I head that number go out with my wife

open... at home. But It's being fun over the passing years. I really, really enjoy doing this because is part of what I'm interested which is language learning over the passed ten years. Why I'll be making these videos, I think I learned seven.. languages degree as you know so is very much part of what I'm doing by enjoy doing like sharing my experiences with others. In my exdperience does also include reading and how languages are acquired. So repetition, ahm...obviously repetiotn is good. You need to see words many times before they stick. You need to see many patterns in the language before they star to become part of. You know, what are you confortable doing ah..but, as I have pointed before when I mention the work of Robert Byork who talks about interleaving. We can just focus on certain limited amount of data , and just try to master because you read it over and over again hoping that is gonna sticking in the brain. It's you are going over the same ground all the time, and every time , and over the same ground, you picking up less and less. So It's very important to vary that with novelty. I often quote Manfred Spitzer, the famous german neuroscientist who said: "to learn, the brain needs repetition and novelty". You have to feed the brain something new, you know, and I'm assume people is curious, anyone that isn't curious for novelty, isn't gonna learn. Anyone who wants they can simply by rote memory , and by not being curious about the language, how the language works, curious about things in the culture, that person simply isn't gonna learn. So very well, so plain repetition, rote memory. A lot, there are people that swer by they are gonna memorize the most important thousends words and memorize the grammar , ace the grammar. I have never found that that works. And I notice that recently with my Greek doing our ministories, and I not gotta to... ministories that we have a lot of that at Linq, audio and text. And but..because our writer was writing stories and an any know slow down we've done new stories and therefore they have... translated . I'm going over the same stories over and over again, because that say newspaper articles that I can find on the internet