{"id":119,"date":"2015-09-19T06:49:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T06:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/?p=119"},"modified":"2015-09-02T08:50:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T08:50:19","slug":"pay-attention-when-people-are-speaking-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/2015\/09\/19\/pay-attention-when-people-are-speaking-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay attention when people are speaking to you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished a nice book entitled, <em>How Languages are Learned<\/em>. The answer of course is, \u201cOften poorly, and always with great difficulty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ha ha.<\/p>\n<p>But there was an interesting remark in the book about the way that language learners receive feedback, but usually fail to make use of it. (This was in the context of classroom , but I think it&#8217;s applicable to everyday learning as well.)<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that most people correct language learners by repeating their sentence back, but fixing the errors. So if someone said to me, \u201cHe eat cookies,\u201d I might say back, \u201cHe eats cookies.\u201d Or if someone said, \u201cHe smashed his finger,\u201d I might echo back, \u201cHe smashed his thumb,\u201d if that was the more correct statement. I know I do this all the time as a parent, and with non-native English speakers, and I know that Afghans do it a lot as well.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, language learners don&#8217;t often pay attention to it! Apparently this is because echoing somebody&#8217;s statement is something that we do fairly routinely in everyday conversation\u2014<em>active listening<\/em>, as it&#8217;s sometimes called.<\/p>\n<p>So this week&#8217;s encouragement is to develop the habit of paying attention this feedback. When people repeat your sentence back to you, try to learn the better way to say it. It may take a while to develop the habit, but it&#8217;s a great source of instant feedback for your production skills\u2014people even do it without noticing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished a nice book entitled, How Languages are Learned. The answer of course is, \u201cOften poorly, and always with great difficulty.\u201d Ha ha. But there was an interesting remark in the book about the way that language learners receive feedback, but usually fail to make use of it. (This was in the context [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-about-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}