The 3 stages of comprehension every language learner goes through

单集文稿 ...

• 00:00

  You know, we talk about comprehensible input,

• 00:02

  but can we learn if we do n't understand or if we do n't fully understand or we miss a lot of what we 're listening to?

• 00:10

  Are we still learning?

• 00:11

  Obviously, when it comes to the idea of comprehensible input,

• 00:15

  I subscribe to Stephen Krashen's view that we learn new languages primarily from input,

• 00:20

  an input that is comprehensible, compelling.

• 00:23

  But obviously, when we start in a new language, and I've said this before, we don't understand anything.

• 00:29

  So I want to look at the degree of comprehension that we have at different stages as our grasp of the language,

• 00:37

  our ability in the language moves along a very slow sort of continuum from a stage where we do n't really understand anything

• 00:44

  to where we have a lot of things that we do understand.

• 00:47

  And to what degree are we learning at each of these stages?

• 00:51

  So first of all, let's say we have three stages.

• 00:56

  So 0 to 25, 30 percent, 30 to 60 percent.

• 00:59

  And then better than 60%, which more or less corresponds to beginner,

• 01:04

  intermediate, advanced, or A1, A2, B1, B2, and then C1, C2 for advanced.

• 01:13

  Doesn't quite match, but gives you a rough idea.

• 01:16

  So in the beginning, when I listened, say in the new language, I listen repeatedly.

• 01:22

  All I'm really doing is getting a sense, a sort of what they call a phonological awareness.

• 01:28

  There are certain patterns that I start to become aware of, patterns of intonation, patterns of pronunciation.

• 01:34

  And as through listening and reading and combining both of these activities and looking up words,

• 全部文稿