Friday, November 30, 2012

Hollywood - Another Planet

By Gert Smith


Have you ever wondered how it is possible that you can speak your native language so easily? When you want to express something, correct phrases and sentences just come to you. Most of this process is unconscious.

Stephen Krashen, a professor in the University of Southern California as well as a linguistics specialist, has developed a hypothesis to clarify how this can be feasible. He used his Input Hypothesis to style what he calls a "natural approach" to mastering 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 youngster learns his or her native language. The youngster listens to their parents along with other people today. Because the child's brain collects these words and sentences, she or he gets superior and greater at generating sentences on their personal. By age 5, the child can currently speak quite fluently.

According to Krashen's theory, the way to learn and improve is to feed your brain with a lot of input - correct and understandable sentences, written or spoken.

Some cognitive scientists say that watching motion pictures is among the most pure approaches of improving your language capabilities at any age. Understanding English by watching motion pictures is an instance of "learning by input."

ReadEnt Reading Movies from SFK Media Specially For Kids Corp. apply this natural method of learning with an innovative tool called "Action Captions." As a child or adult watches the movie, each spoken word appears on the screen as text directly from the person's mouth as it is spoken.

"From the point of view of young children and adults finding out to read English fluently, specifically if it isn't their native language, these films feed the brain using a large amount of input," mentioned Len Anthony Smith, chief executive officer of SFK Media. "They learn the best way to say these words and sentences naturally and, thus, strengthen their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and comprehension swiftly and conveniently."

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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