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actionjackson
Joined: 30 Dec 2007
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 Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:10 am Post subject: Our jobs are saved, thank you science |
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They found that for Chinese immigrants, addressing a Chinese face increased social comfort but reduced English fluency. “It’s ironic” that the more comfortable volunteers were with their conversational partner, the less fluent they became, Zhang says.
When chatting with the Chinese version of Lee, the volunteers produced 11 percent fewer words per minute on average.
Viewing iconic images of Chinese culture (such as the Great Wall) also interfered with their English fluency, causing a 16 percent drop in words produced per minute.
This “cultural priming” also made the volunteers 85 percent more likely to name objects with literal translations from Chinese — such as calling pistachios, “happy nuts.” |
Learning from foreign faces does seem to make students learn better.
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/what-to-avoid-when-learning-a-foreign-language/22823?tag=search-river |
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CentralCali
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| Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| Hey, I like that bit about the "iconic images" impeding the learning of English. I wonder how long it'll take for Korea to remove all the iconic Korean images from their English textbooks. |
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nicwr2002
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| Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| For me, I always wanted to be taught a language by a native speaker of that language. If I was taught Korean by an American then it would take some of the fun out of it for me. |
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peachKitten713
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| Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| nicwr2002 wrote: |
| For me, I always wanted to be taught a language by a native speaker of that language. If I was taught Korean by an American then it would take some of the fun out of it for me. |
+1 |
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randall020105
Joined: 08 Apr 2008
Location: the land of morning confusion...
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| Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 5:33 pm Post subject: what about gyopo's? |
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What about Gyopo's?
That kinda makes this unfair toward that minority. Don't you think?
But... science is science.
I guess this only applies to people looking really different.
When we learned German at school we had a German guy and he didn't look
much different than my PE teacher.
My prediction... we'll be around for another 100 years or so whether some
xenophobes like it or not.
My 5 cents. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:37 pm Post subject: Re: what about gyopo's? |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
| Hey, I like that bit about the "iconic images" impeding the learning of English. I wonder how long it'll take for Korea to remove all the iconic Korean images from their English textbooks. |
Let's hope so. Teaching English has been a part of the education propaganda in Korea.
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| What about Gyopo's? |
We have ways to deal with this. I just don't talk anything about Korea. I only speak English. |
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