The weeks results?
Well, most interesting indeed. Another ten in the head. But more importantly, there have been significant insights into the language!
The insights?
In one of my earlier posts I quoted a researcher who believed children learn day by day until they experience a vocabulary explosion. I said that this is a matter of time but more importantly it could be accelerated by study. Although I estimated a much shorter time, I believe that I have experienced the beginnings of this explosion. According to the theory of the three reference banks, this would mean the explosion comes in the second stage/ second reference bank development.
How can you tell?
Well, defining a vocab explosion, it suggests that a learner gets to the point where they are able to predict unknown vocab very easily and produce unknown forms of words based on current knowledge of how the language is typically constructed. It takes all the 'monkey see, monkey do' information, connects it all together and the learner can now produce language never before encountered, now its 'monkey hasn't seen, monkey do'.
This doesn't mean the learner should stop the process, just that they now can acquire at an accelerated rate and should have more confidence with the language.
This is what I feel has happened to me.
Video
As promised, its video time. I tried using a variety of grammatical forms and some new expressions.
Enjoy.
Next week?
Another 10 collocations. But specifically working on natives speaking and speeding up my listening translation time.
Chau
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