Language Learning Strategy Flashcards
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Attention, Meaning, Relevance, Memory
AMRM
AMRM
Attention, Meaning, Relevance, Memory
Attention, Meankng, Relevance, Memory. These interconnect and are very very important
AMRM
What has relevance?
Information that helps survival has relevance
Information
Information that helps achieve Personal Goals has relevance
Principle # 1:
Focus on language content that is relevant to you which brings us to tools
We master tools by using tools
We learn tool fastest when they are relevant
We master tools by using tools
We learn tools fastest when they are relevant
Keyboard
Is a tool
Principle # 2
Use your new language as a tool to communicate…from day 1
From day 1 use yournew language
Piece by piece I understood more and more
Learn piece by piece
Principle #3
When you first understand the message
You will unconsciously acquire the language
Comprehensible input
Comprehension is the KEY
Comprehensible Input Approach
Grammar focus language teaching
Language learning is not about accumulating knowledge
It’s about physiological learning
Principle #3…
Physiological Training
Physiological Training
English Deaf
We have filters in our brains that filte in the sounds that we are familiar with filter out the sounds of languages that we are not.
If you can’t hear it you can’t understand it.
You are not gonna learn it.
You need to learn to hear thsose sounds.
That is why it is a physiological training
Talking takes muscle…
You have 43 muscles in your face
Coordinate those muscles to produce sounds that other people will understand
When you do training, your body hurts
When your face hurts
You are doing it right
Principle #5
Psycho-physiological state matters.
Angry, worried, upset, you are not going to learn
Happy, relax, curious
You will learn really quickly.
Very important idea
You must learn to tolerate ambiguity
If you have to understand 100 percent
You’ll go nuts.
7 actions for rapid language acquisition
Action 1–listen a lot. hear tons and tons of language - Brain soaking.
Action #2 focus on getting the meaning first before the words
Human language is body language in so many ways.
Use patterns you already know
Vietname = 30% Mandarin + 30 % Cantonese
Action #3 start mixing!
10 verbs×10nouns×10adjectives = 1000 possible phrases
So…get creative..start mixing
Action #4 Focus on the core
High frequency language
Week 1 the toolbox
5get a language parent
6 copy the face
7 Direct connect to mental images
Same box different path
