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beyond language learning

Postby Kraut » Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:16 pm

https://beyondlanguagelearning.com/kristian-peltonen/

I have only just discovered this website, so I don't know how useful it may be, however, there seems to be a lot of food for thought.

My name is Kristian Peltonen and I’m the creator of Beyond Language Learning and the author of all the posts on this site.
While I’ve been interested in languages and language learning for much of my life, I grew up monolingual in Ontario, Canada, only learning to speak English as a child. Like many people, I was disappointed with second language instruction in school, finding myself unable to even have basic conversations in another language despite years of classes. For a time, I even thought I was just not good at languages. These kinds of experiences led me to investigate how as an adult I might become highly fluent in a new language.
At first, I tried to teach myself languages through studying grammar, memorizing vocabulary, and practicing speaking. But as I read more about second language acquisition, I discovered that the key to fluency is not study and practice, but getting plenty of comprehensible input—exposure to a language in ways that we understand what is being said.


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In researching language acquisition though comprehensible input, I came across a unique approach called Automatic Language Growth. ALG theorizes that adults can learn languages as easily and as well as children if they learn them like children: by listening a lot first and gaining understanding, then gradually speaking more and more based on this experience, rather than consciously trying to produce or work out the language.

https://beyondlanguagelearning.com/2017 ... -learning/


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https://beyondlanguagelearning.com/tag/audio-description/

A potential goldmine of content might be just the press of a button away if you’re a language learner who wants to pick up a language through watching and listening.
Audio description, also known as described video, video description, or visual description, adds a narrator’s description of precisely what’s happening on the screen to a program’s soundtrack.
What appears to be overlooked is its tremendous value as a tool for language acquisition.
By providing a great source of comprehensible input—language made understandable through context
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