The essence of effective language learning is to learn to understand and to add "life" to your learning.
(John 6:63 ) The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
(Proverbs 16:22) Understanding is a fountain of life to those who have it, but folly brings punishment to fools.
What does adding “life” to learning means ?
It means the process learning language involves not only the language items but also the interactive process of: social, cultural, intellectual, and life enhancement.
John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
Impact
Good teaching and learning should have a meaningful impact on individual life.
Here are the 7 ways to enhance language learning:
- Learn by listening: Make use of the English television or radio news to learn English so to better understand the world around you.
- Learn by reading: Read news in English newspaper at least twice a week. Learn the titles of the news. They are windows showing you the "life" around.
- Learn by incorporating learning resources into daily life: Read and study English daily. read and/or reply English e-mail messages. Search for and use learning resources on the Internet.
- Learn by using vocabulary in phrases: Keep a note of phrases you find useful to develop your language or personal skills
- Learn by repeating: Repeat and study the phrases that is meaningful to you.
- Learn by memorizing: Know the styles of learning that will work for you. For example, you may need to write an expression several times before you can remember it; you may need to read aloud to memorize ideas or information.
- Learn by writing and sharing ideas:Talk to your friends in English. Keep a record of your learning by writing blog messages.
2 comments:
Do you think it is a good idea to learn vocabulary by joting the words into an electonic document such as MS Word (and then apply them)? Thanks!
Yes, review is the key not the media you use to review. It is OK to jot words in whatever format as long as you review them often enough. Review, review, review.
In fact, I must say there is no way to memorize vocabulary that keeps you from losing it. I myself have to work real hard to memorize the first time, and then recurrently review to keep it. So I memorize new words every day, and I forget them every day.
But don't try to do that with every words you learn. Choose the relevant ones and cluster them. You should be learning hundreds of words by heart, and forgetting 90% of them. But then you get to them again and relearn them, and they are still with you because you learned them once. Somehow they will eventually stick and get out into your life.
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