[B-Greek] internalization (was Fwd: ... Greek Book)
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 12:34:59 EDT 2009
egrapse John K, (sure miss Johnny C)
> This of course illustrates the are a number of aspects to knowing a language:-
>1 Passive:-
>
> 1.1) Able to read aloud a text
> 1.2) Able to read and understand a text
> 1.3) Able to listen and understand
To paraphrase Bill Clinton, "just what kind of 'able' is 'able'?"
what kind of "internalization" is it when a person can read through a text
but cannot understand a text when read outloud to them? (in any dialect)
I suppose I use that as a standard:
able to understand a text at the rate of normal conversation.
I think that is what most Literature majors aim at in the language of their
choice.
And the question becomes, how do we get there? This is where I have
doubts about the efficacy of 'reading only',
because readers can slow down a communication,
start a sentence, go get a cup of coffee, and
then come back to finish. Readers can pull everything into their first
language world too easily, so that the mechanisms within the target
language may never get built, I'm thinking. Wondering.
We need to be able to explain the phenomenon
that a person can teach NT Greek for 20 years, but if
a text is read to them from Acts or an Epistle, n'importe quelle
pronouniciation, comprehension breaks down.
And the question remains, how do we get past an impasse?
able to understand a text at the rate of normal conversation.
at what most Literature majors aim at in the language of their choice.
> 2 Active:-
> 1.1) Able to write a language
> 1.2) Able to speak a language
>
> 3 Other:-
> 3.1) Able to analyze the grammar of a text
> 3.2) Able to translate
> . . .
> Spend 4 hours a day working on any language and internalization can
> start to take place, though beware "internalized" is not the same as
> "correct", people acquiring a second language often have an
> interlanguage - which has features of both the second language and the
> mother language, furthermore many never totally get past this phase.
actually, this interlanguage can produce features that are in neither.
In addition, multilingualism causes changes that are not fully understood
except that multilinguals may be different in their first language from
monolinguals. Scary? Normal.
ERRWSQE
Randall
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