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Are Eyeballs the Best Way to Learn English Words?Learn English words? Eyeballs? What are we really asking here?What I am really asking is: Is it better
to learn by reading
or by listening ?
The short answer is: it depends. What do you need to learn for? Written testsIf you are studying to pass a written test, then eyeballs are the best way to learn English words. That is, study by reading. This is also true for work that requires a lot of reading, and writing. Translations, business correspondence, and other related work.Our visual memory is much better if we have to only recognize the content, not reproduce it. Our visual memory is also better at capturing many details. It can be strenthtened even more if we arrange the information in spatial diagrams that show relationships between the information. ***BUT***Social SituationsIn social situations, listening and speaking are going to be your best way to learn English words. This means listen to the new vocabulary, prefereably in context. If you listen many times, and also practice speaking the new vocabulary (repeating what you hear, and then making your own sentences), you can greatly increase your listening (auditory) memory.Auditory memory is not as detailed (rich) as visual memory, but it is better when we need to actually use the words we are learning in conversation. Auditory memory works well when we learn things in a sequence; we can remember it better. This goes back perhaps to the oral history traditions that humans had for most of our unrecorded history. Listening to new words in context helps strengthen the habit of guessing the meaning of a new word from context. This helps us 'learn on our feet' in real life situations. We can start to add new words to our vocabulary in everyday English life. How to learn English words by listening.Listen to the words in context. Try to guess the meaning from the general story (the context) and look up the meanings later to confirm your ideas. Reviewing verbally adds a new dimension to the memory and strengthens it, so after you hear it, repeat it out loud. Then if we draw pictures to represent the meanings, the memory is even stronger. Finally, if we review the information on an interval basis, we can learn much more information much faster. Happy learning! Longing for EqualityVerb List1. Level out if a rate or amount levels off, it stops rising or falling and it stays at the same level. 2. Chip in to give an amount of money, especially when a group of people are giving money to pay for something together 3. Hold out if you hold out for something, you beleive that it could happen 4. Long for to have a desire for; to yearn for; to crave for 5. Phone up to telephone someone This text will be replaced
Craig told his friends that things were difficult in southern Africa. Craig used to work there as a volunteer, and now he wants to help children in Africa. He asked his friends to chip in to support a foster child through Unicef. He has been phoning his friends up one by one. He told them that the new ecnomic problems are very hard on Africa and they won't level off for a long time. He is holding out for ten friends to help him by chipping in. Craig is an idealist and he longs for a fair world where all people are equal.
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