SLA by short brain

It has been three days since the summer vacation. Through these days, I have been deeply touched by the learning of the shortbrain English document. Shortbrain thoroughly overturned the English learning models we used over the past decade, even though most people do not agree.

 

I think the core of shortbrain is to get rid of "Chinese thinking" and treat itself as a small baby to treat SL (Second Language ), even more extreme, it is to learn English and cultivate "English thinking" like a baby who has just learned to speak abroad ". For example, what do you hear when you hear a string of English numbers "eight six three two three five zero nine eight? 86 ...... What ...... 8? This is the process of translating English → Chinese → numbers during your listening process. Why do you have to translate? Why does the first time in your mind reflect no corresponding number when you hear English?

 

Why is it so hard for you to hear or speak English after learning English for more than ten years? That is, we use it as knowledge to learn and remember it, instead of actually taking English as a language to acquire. This is the core of shortbrain and short-circuited your brain, when receiving English information, you can directly understand the corresponding things or emotions without assistance from Chinese. Naturally, you can understand English.

When I was a child and just learning Chinese, do we just listen to my mom and dad and then hear more slowly before we start to talk about it, therefore, we also pay attention to the order of learning content and methods. Only effective input can be effectively output. Only by cultivating the English thinking in the process of listening can we be able to learn at a glance.