MorkTheFiddle wrote:Interesting concept. Do you have the name of the specific deck? Would love to take a shot at it. Thanks.
It was just a proof of concept I created a while ago. The main idea is that by typing what you hear, the student is improving in several areas at the same time: Listening, spelling, vocabulary and... grammar, because with vocabulary and grammar can you figure out what on Earth native speakers are saying at full speed.
luke wrote:the idea is to take a small chunk and get better at that, then move on to the next chunk.
Hi, Luke. There are similar techniques and several software tools that seem to emerge from this basic idea of taking things one chunk at a time.
For example, that's the basic idea behind WorkAudioBook, an mp3 player for language learners which is so good, I'd install Windows on a Mac just to be able to use it. I'm using it to train my ears with audio recordings.
Ear2memory seems like a good implementation of this idea, but it's Android only.
The general term for these tools is probably "Media players for language learners". Language Reactor would also fall in this category.
BTW, the "Scriptorium" technique by Prof. Arguelles also follows a similar idea, but without the audio component. But it would be very easy to add an audio component if you use any MPLL (Media Player for Language Learning) with it. As I understand it, "Scriptorium" is basically reading a sentence aloud, holding it in your working memory to the best of your ability while repeating it aloud, and then, without looking at the original, writing the sentence down on paper, while paying careful attention to form, including small details such as function words. You then compare the version you wrote down to the original, and correct your mistakes, which will mostly be in function words. This is the exact opposite of the "reading comprehension" and "listening comprehension" exercises learners are often requested to do, because in those exercises it's very easy to only pay attention to content words and filter out function words.