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[quote=DODGER,385167]There’s nothing wrong with being a parrot just as long as you don’t ask Polly what flavour cracker she wants. With respect Griz, I don’t think the actor memorizing his lines analogy really fits with learning English. Actors are in fact parrots reciting lines that someone else has written. What I believe is that many; but not all, Chinese student fail to understand that the alphabet is a representation of a number of sounds. They know the names of the letters but not the sounds that they make. There are 220 dolch words. I am told that they make up between 50 to 70% of most written work. These are usually learnt by memorizing them because they are difficult to sound out using phonetics. But there it ends. My example would be a music student trying to master an instrument and at the same time learning to read music. Learning to read music is not that difficult, it’s the computation time between reading and recognizing the written note, to a further physical and mental function of translating that into a sound with the correct choice of fingering and the formation of the correct embouchure. It’s not until all of these functions are imbedded subconsciously that there can be any fluency. Not many people can master an instrument without playing a note. I don’t see that mush difference in learning a foreign language. On the same theme, I think that too many students are afraid of playing a bum note. I took my Wife to England last Spring Festival. Her English went up overnight by 20%. Immersion defiantly works. Dodger. [/quote]
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