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Tuning and Testing Listening-Reading

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DaraghM
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18 November 2009 at 5:27pm | IP Logged 
I was wondering how the Listening-Reading System is tuned and tested by others. I've used L-R on a number of occasions, and found it to be extremely useful. However, I found I needed to extend it in a couple of ways to suit my personal learning goals.

Here are my adaptions, which can vary depending on my proficiency in a given language.

1) Pure Listening - In order to test that I've fully understood a text, I introduced a pure listening component. This simply involves listening to the audiobook while walking, travelling or other daytime activity. I found it helps to identify unknown words, phrases or constructions, which I would revisit.

2) Pure Reading - This is basically reading the parallel text without listening to the audio. I normally do it after I've identified sections on the audio I wasn't confident about. My sessions could be disrupted to read up on a grammar point, but never a word.

3) Over L-R - Sometimes I found it useful to repeat a paragraph a number of times before moving onto the next one. I found this a lot with Russian.

I'd like to hear if anyone else has expanded the technique for their study ?
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papillon
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18 November 2009 at 8:24pm | IP Logged 
When I started out using L-R system, I would strictly follow it. After two weeks I had to tweak the system to my needs.

I spend about 1 hour total each day doing L-R: attentively reading while listening to the target language L2. Any other steps advised by the L-R system are simply omitted.

I have made over 15 parallel texts in French but rarely read the L1, except when I really need it. I just dive into reading and listening L2.

Like Buttons has stated, L-R in short intervals seems more effective than several hours continuously.





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