Monday, 10 December 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 and also a linguistics professional, has developed a hypothesis to explain how this really is possible. He employed his Input Hypothesis to style what he calls a "natural approach" to understanding a language.

Krashen uses "input" in this context to describe the words and sentences which you read and listen to. Should you comprehend these sentences, they are stored within your brain. Additional especially, they're stored in the portion of the brain that is responsible for language.

Krashen uses his hypothesis to explain how a child learns his or her native language. The child listens to his or her parents and other people. As the child's brain collects these words and sentences, he or she gets better and better at producing sentences on his or her own. By age 5, the child can already 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 movies is one of the most natural methods of improving your language skills at any age. Learning English by watching movies is an example 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, primarily if it's not their native language, these films feed the brain having a lot of input," mentioned Len Anthony Smith, chief executive officer of SFK Media. "They study the way to say these words and sentences naturally and, consequently, strengthen their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and comprehension speedily and easily."

ReadEnt's Reading Films are readily available as interactive DVD programs for use around the Television, pc, video-game console or portable DVD player. They contain such classics as "20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea," "Tales of Gulliver's Travels" and "The Trojan Horse." They also come with interactive quizzes and games to create the understanding knowledge much more enjoyable for young children from kindergarten by eighth grade.




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