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10 Dec 2006 11:32:53 -0800: "Marco Pagliero" <martesi@xxxxxx>: in
sci.lang:
>There are two different forms of concentration: the one consists in
>actively keeping all other things out of your attention so as to be
>able to see only one thing. This is "to focus" and an adult has to be
>able to "focus" on the list of foreign words he is traying to learn,
That 's a very ineffective way of learning. Learning in context,
without focus on the words to be learnt, is much better.
>because the thoughts of job and girl friend and new car and next year's
>holiday would make it impossible to memorize the words.
Writing of reading a story involving job, girl, new car and whatever
else interests you, which then involves the words to be learnt, is
much more effective. People remember what is important to them, and
anything associated with it. That is the natural way of learning. By
putting that to work, learning become fun. But it still takes a lot of
time.
>The other form of concentration is when you don't need to actively keep
>other things out of your attention, because there are no other things
>competing for it, that is when the one thing you are doing is the only
>one that counts for you, if you are an adult, or is the only one that
>actually exists for you, if you are a baby.
>So it is a wrong assumption that a baby not to be able of
>concentration. In fact a baby is nothing else than concentration. It
>does not need to "focus" because it has nothing else to distract it. A
>baby has no other thoughts or interests than this one: to observe what
>happens, to recognize patterns, and to memorize them.
RIght. And by memorizinh just a boring list of words with no context,
you disable all those learning mechanisms, so it won't work.
>Memorizing
>happens automatically if you are interested in what you are seeing or
>listening. A baby is deeply and uniquely interested in what it is
>seeing or listening.
Right.
>An adult trying to learn a list of words is normally in a very
>different situation: thousand things are competing for his attention,
>and in most of the cases to learn these bloody words will have a rather
>low priority.
Yes, because it is the wrong learning method.
--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com
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