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Importance of the Drawing
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When I am focusing on new vocabulary it always help me to do stick figure drawings. I do believe that drawings make a good substitute for not actually having the objects in my hand. Have you ever looked at the data of the student artist’s comprehension level as compared to someone sitting on the front row? I know you probably are not into data collection but it might be interesting to know.
Well it’s not totally that I’m not into data collection simply bc I’m a right brain person, like freakishly so, but really there are so many factors that I don’t see how one can do proper data collection on them all just bc there are so many, layers and layers of them.
Moreover, the researchers are dealing with something so vast – language acquisition having been shown to occur in an entirely different universe – the unconscious mind, which cannot be measured, that it seems that no data collection instrument could ever even come close to ever having a shred of accuracy in it.
Compounding the issue is that students are all so different one from the other. (I just wanted to say “one from the other”.)
Here is when I recently knew my adult students were acquiring and I stopped worrying about if I was teaching okay. They said they were waking up with their brain trying to figure out what a particular word was. The word translates to hurry up.
I knew their unconscious mind was at work for sure.
Maybe we should ask about if students are dreaming about French or the stories they have heard in class?
Dreaming is part of the Din. But I don’t think Krashen got any further with that in terms of being able to pin aspects of the Din down into a tool to assess growth. It’s all a big soup. But yes, I would think that when they start reporting dreaming about the language it is all systems go from then on – they are acquiring bc it’s unconscious and you are doing real CI. But as I understand it that can happen while driving, whenever.
Oh yes. It happens during the unfocused quiet like a song that is an ear worm. It is the sorting the brain slides into moments. It is not a concentrated moment but the brain mulling over what it has heard.