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Re: My Spanish study favourites (gear, people, methods, resources....)

Postby luke » Wed Jun 09, 2021 12:28 am

Psicolingüística - 8 YouTube videos on kliudrsfhlih channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/kliudrsfhlih/videos

He also has 3 videos on vocabulary acquisition.

This is directed at teachers, but he's covering a lot of recent science. Think it's also helpful for the self-directed learner.

These are all in Spanish, covering Krashen, Van Patten, and other giants in the field.

The Psicolingüística and Vocabulario series each have a Conclusions video.

They're all worth watching.

Nice voice. Laid back. Latin-American accent.
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Re: My Spanish study favourites (gear, people, methods, resources....)

Postby Kraut » Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:11 am

His tesis de licenciatura

http://132.248.9.195/ptd2019/octubre/0796950/Index.html

La utilidad del uso de software para la enseñanza de vocabulario E/LE desde un enfoque psicolingüístico
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Re: My Spanish study favourites (gear, people, methods, resources....)

Postby Kraut » Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:10 pm

https://losinterrogantes.com/cine/criti ... del-dragon

LOS INTERROGANTES

Críticas de películas, noticias de cine, entrevistas a los actores, reportajes, entregas de premios, galas... todo esto y mucho más puedes encontrar en esta revista digital donde ponemos a tu disposición la actualidad con vídeos y grabaciones de producción propia.

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Re: My Spanish study favourites (gear, people, methods, resources....)

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:42 pm

Kraut wrote:https://losinterrogantes.com/cine/criticas/el-misterio-del-dragon

LOS INTERROGANTES

Críticas de películas, noticias de cine, entrevistas a los actores, reportajes, entregas de premios, galas... todo esto y mucho más puedes encontrar en esta revista digital donde ponemos a tu disposición la actualidad con vídeos y grabaciones de producción propia.

Film reviews, film news, interviews with actors, reports, award ceremonies, galas
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It is good to have a source for the language of movies and of criticism.
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Re: My Spanish study favourites (gear, people, methods, resources....)

Postby Kraut » Fri Jun 11, 2021 10:33 am

Luca Lampariello on learning Spanish with Pablo from Dreaming Spanish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtcAfmWYQgc
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Re: My Spanish study favourites (gear, people, methods, resources....)

Postby Kraut » Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:32 pm

https://photocall.tv/gl3a/mt?ch=cuatro

https://www.cuatro.com/horizonte/
Horizonte (TV series)


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Horizonte is a Spanish television program directed and presented by journalist Iker Jiménez. It premiered in 2020 as a program dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic, owing its existence to a similar monograph in Jiménez's main program Cuarto Milenio,[1][2] though later expanding to other relevant topics, like politics, science and investigative journalism, in 2021.
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Re: My Spanish study favourites (gear, people, methods, resources....)

Postby Kraut » Fri Jun 18, 2021 11:04 am

https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.nace.co.uk/re ... rieval.pdf

Source: https://www.retrievalpractice.org/why-it-works

Struggling to learn is much more effective than re-reading, taking notes,or listening to lectures.


Deliberately recalling information forces us to pull our knowledge “out” and examine what we know.

The “struggle” or challenge to recall information improves our memory and learning – by trying to recall information, we exercise or strengthen our memory,and we can also identify gaps in our learning.

•Retrieval is the active process we engage in to boost learning; tests and quizzes are merely methods to promote retrieval.

•Retrieval practice makes learning effortful and challenging. The more difficult the retrieval practice, the better it is for long-term learning.

Struggling to learn – through the act of practising what you know and recalling information – is much more effective than re-reading, taking notes,or listening to lectures.

•Slower, effortful retrieval leads to long-term learning. In contrast, fast, easy strategies only lead to short-term learning.

•Having to actively recall and write down an answer to a flashcard improves learning more than thinking that you know the answer and flipping the card over prematurely.

Retrieval practice is such an effective revision technique because it requires students to recall previously learnt knowledge, which creates stronger memory traces and increases the likelihood that the informati on will be transferred to the long-term memory.

•The process of retrieving information from memory actually helps it to be consolidated: a test can make the memory more secure and less likely to be forgotten

In practice: what’s working?


Research initially found that tests or short quizzes dramatically improve learning. Further research has shown that additional recall methods are equally important for improving learning:

•Direct verbal questioning •Self-questioning

•Writing notes from memory

•Using flash cards

•Writing essays

•Group discussion.The key factor is that information is actively retrieved rather than passively heard or re-read – a principle that can be applied to any subject discipline.
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Re: My Spanish study favourites (gear, people, methods, resources....)

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:56 pm

Kraut wrote:
In practice: what’s working?

Research initially found that tests or short quizzes dramatically improve learning. Further research has shown that additional recall methods are equally important for improving learning:

For me, the $64 question is, how do you quiz yourself? If you make up the test yourself, the question is never a surprise and you never have to "retrieve" anything.
Please note I am not questioning the need to retrieve nor its effectiveness. Just, How do I ask myself a question whose answer I don't already know?
I am also aware I am probably taking a very simple-minded approach to this. :oops:
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Re: My Spanish study favourites (gear, people, methods, resources....)

Postby rdearman » Fri Jun 18, 2021 7:02 pm

MorkTheFiddle wrote:
Kraut wrote:
In practice: what’s working?

Research initially found that tests or short quizzes dramatically improve learning. Further research has shown that additional recall methods are equally important for improving learning:

For me, the $64 question is, how do you quiz yourself? If you make up the test yourself, the question is never a surprise and you never have to "retrieve" anything.
Please note I am not questioning the need to retrieve nor its effectiveness. Just, How do I ask myself a question whose answer I don't already know?
I am also aware I am probably taking a very simple-minded approach to this. :oops:

You can do what I've done for other topics (not language learning). While studying, you generate a quiz on the things you are studying for your future self. Then before you start the next study session, future self has to answer the quiz present self has created before. Anything future self doesn't remember they have to re-study. You will have forgotten things, it is just basic human failings. Some studies suggest you'll forget 50% of what you learn within 24 hours, then another chunk the next day, etc, etc.
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Re: My Spanish study favourites (gear, people, methods, resources....)

Postby Kraut » Sat Jun 19, 2021 7:47 am

MorkTheFiddle wrote:
Kraut wrote:
In practice: what’s working?

Research initially found that tests or short quizzes dramatically improve learning. Further research has shown that additional recall methods are equally important for improving learning:

For me, the $64 question is, how do you quiz yourself? If you make up the test yourself, the question is never a surprise and you never have to "retrieve" anything.
Please note I am not questioning the need to retrieve nor its effectiveness. Just, How do I ask myself a question whose answer I don't already know?
I am also aware I am probably taking a very simple-minded approach to this. :oops:


I learn mini-texts by heart while (reverse) translating them to get the meaning 100 per cent right. This is very painful and slow, but I end up with the complete text in front of my mental eye. I can now retrieve stuff, practice and manipulate it in many ways.
When I let the text rest I will lose pieces of the story. After a month I need a quarter to half an hour to refresh it completely.
An example. It took me about a week in 30 minutes portions to memorize this text
https://ssl4you.es/podcast/201-supermer ... u-podcast/
Last week I had to refresh it in about 20 minutes, before I went to the vaccination center to get my second dose. I had to wait an hour and practised the text in my head. After retelling the text to myself, I gave myself little tasks - quizzing myself: "name the products that are mentioned in the text", "collect all the verbs that describe what you were doing in the supermarket" ....
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