samedi 1 décembre 2012

Hollywood - Another Planet

By Gert Smith


Have you ever wondered how it really is achievable that you could speak your native language so conveniently? Once you choose to express anything, appropriate phrases and sentences just come to you. Nearly all of this course of action is unconscious.

Stephen Krashen, a professor at the University of Southern California and a linguistics expert, has developed a hypothesis to explain how this is possible. He used his Input Hypothesis to design what he calls a "natural approach" to learning a language.

Krashen uses "input" in this context to describe the words and sentences that you read and listen to. If you understand these sentences, they are stored in your brain. More specifically, they are stored in the part of your brain that is responsible for language.

Krashen makes use of his hypothesis to explain how a child learns their native language. The kid listens to their parents and also other people today. Because the child's brain collects these words and sentences, he or she gets greater and greater at generating sentences on their own. By age 5, the youngster can already speak pretty fluently.

In line with Krashen's theory, the way to discover and improve is usually to feed your brain with a great deal of input - right and understandable sentences, written or spoken.

Some cognitive scientists say that watching movies is one of the most natural methods of improving your language skills at any age. Learning English by watching movies is an example of "learning by input."

ReadEnt Reading Motion pictures from SFK Media Specially For Children Corp. apply this organic system of mastering with an revolutionary tool named "Action Captions." As a kid or adult watches the film, every spoken word seems around the screen as text directly from the person's mouth as it is spoken.

"From the point of view of children and adults learning to read English fluently, especially if it's not their native language, these movies feed the brain with a lot of input," said Len Anthony Smith, chief executive officer of SFK Media. "They learn how to say these words and sentences naturally and, therefore, improve their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and comprehension quickly and easily."

ReadEnt's Reading Movies are available as interactive DVD programs for use on the TV, computer, video-game console or portable DVD player. They include such classics as "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," "Tales of Gulliver's Travels" and "The Trojan Horse." They also come with interactive quizzes and games to make the learning experience even more enjoyable for children from kindergarten through eighth grade.




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