RU2124233C1 - Method for fast learning of foreign languages - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: education. SUBSTANCE: method involves self-suggestion training, conscious and unconscious education stages. Latter stage involves visual perception of suggestive part of video film with material for learning, including, for example, words with their translation to mother tongue of trainee. Conscious education stage follows unconscious one and consists of conscious oral and visual perception of studied data including inner and outer articulation. In addition this stage includes training with test exercises which correspond to studied data, for example, they contain words and produce visual images which are associated with these words in mind of trainee. EFFECT: possibility to memorize 2000 to 6000 foreign words for 60 hours, increased efficiency of education, increased volume of long-term information, increased speed of information acquisition. 6 cl, 1 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to methods of learning foreign languages through the perception of audiovisual information and is based on the modern level of development of the psychology of learning using the recommended, proven practical experience, autogenous training method, preparing students for highly effective perception of the material being studied at sub-sensory (unconscious) and sensory (conscious) levels assimilation.

 The prior art method of accelerated learning in various disciplines, mainly foreign languages, including the sensory and subsensory teaching method and autogenic training (A.S. SU 699537, class G 09 B 7/02, 19/06, 1979). The known method consists in the formation of special signals that are simultaneously displayed on different fields of the monitor screen, and requires the student to be equipped with a special electronic mask to perceive these signals, which complicates the implementation of the method.

 The technical result of the invention consists in simplifying the above method and increasing its efficiency by increasing the volume of long-term stored information and accelerating its assimilation by the learner.

 The essence of the invention consists in creating a method for accelerated learning of foreign languages, including both conscious and unconscious methods of perception of educational information and the method of autogenous stimulation, but unlike the closest analogue, at the initial stage of the method, an autogenic training is carried out to mobilize the student’s mental and physical strength, consisting of the following principles of self-control: desire, joy, relaxation and concentration. Then, the subsensory stage of training is carried out, which consists in the visual perception by the trainee of the suggestive part of the video film with the material being studied. After that, they proceed to the sensory stage of training, which consists of two parts. During the first part, the student consciously perceives the audiovisual educational information recorded in the second part of the video film and speaks it first mentally, then with the inclusion of articulation, and at the end of the training aloud, following the speaker. In the second part of the sensory training phase, the learner works with control cards containing the material being studied. During this period, the learner is offered to create a visual image in the mind that is associative to the material being studied, for example, a word.

 During the demonstration on the monitor screen in the sensory mode of the material being studied, for example, various pairs of words in a foreign language and their translation into the learner's language, the time for presentation of each pair of words is 40-80 ms.

 It is advisable to conduct the main stages of training, such as: subsensory, audiovisual perception and work with control cards at equal intervals of 10 to 15 minutes.

 When pronouncing the words out loud, a person hears himself poorly, because the sound obscures the auditory perception. This circumstance leads to the fact that a student without a teacher, repeating after the speaker aloud foreign words, poorly notices the pronunciations made by him incorrectly. To eliminate this drawback, the correct pronunciation of the studied material in a foreign language is controlled using a tape recorder in recording mode, a microphone and headphones.

 The proposed method of teaching is based on the phenomenon of hypermnesia (supermemory) that occurs in the process of using the suggestological method of teaching, in which information is acquired by a person, bypassing consciousness. When using this method, vocabulary material is presented to the student with a high frequency in the subsensory range of perception using a VCR and the learning process proceeds at the level of unconscious mental activity.

Modern teaching technology distinguishes between a person two main modes (ranges) of perception:
- mode of conscious perception (touch);
- the mode of unconscious (subsensory) perception.

 So, for example, when projecting onto the screen with the help of a filmoscope, images of slides (transparencies) containing educational information with a frame rate of 1 frame / s (1 Hz), perception will occur in the mode of conscious perception, since the student’s consciousness will keep up consciously assimilate this information. If the same slides are presented to the student with a frequency equal to the frequency of sweep (change) of frames when playing videos - 25 frames / s (25 Hz), then the human consciousness will not have time to perceive this information. At first glance, it seems that the information presented with such a high frequency should be irretrievably lost for human memory. However, numerous scientific experiments have shown that the information presented in the sub-sensory mode of perception is perceived by the human subconscious, and the memory efficiency in this mode increases by tens of hundreds of times. This is due to the fact that 97% of human mental activity occurs at the subconscious level and only 3% at the level of consciousness.

 Experimental studies have shown high learning efficiency using the subsensory range of perception, allowing you to use the hidden reserves of human memory.

Only with proper self-training of students and serious motivations (attitudes) will the final result - accelerated learning of foreign languages in about 60 hours with long-term memorization from 2000 to 6000 foreign words be achieved with minimal “labor” and in the shortest possible time. Therefore, students are encouraged to master the methods of autogenic training, based on the following principles:
1. The desire to do, ie deliberate "intrinsic motivation" of the trainees, because otherwise the "blocking of the channels of learning information to the long-term memory" is inevitable and the "waste of labor" is inevitable.

 2. The principle of "joy", which implies the creation of "inner comfort against the backdrop of positive seals," since it is in this state that the student is able to easily fix his attention and absorb large amounts of information without information stress and overwork.

 3. The principle of "complete relaxation", borrowed from the arsenal of methods to control their psychological state of yogic training, which allows you to quickly remove the state of internal psychological tension, since "standing on tiptoe will not be able to stand for a long time," and students should periodically relieve fatigue to prevent the notorious "information stress. "

 4. The principle of total attention, concentration, because without the ability to concentrate attention, the training material will not be absorbed and will "leak like water into sand."

 Each lesson (academic hour) consists of three stages, including viewing the suggestological part of the video in a subconscious perception mode lasting 10-15 minutes, followed by working in the "audio" mode with conscious perception of the educational material for 10-15 minutes and the third - working with control cards - in a conscious mode of perception also lasting about 10-15 minutes, while at the first stage the training material is acquired in a subsensory mode with the time of presentation of one pair of words (foreign and translation) 40-80 ms, and at the second ( linguaphone part) after the announcer, each word is repeated mentally, which excludes the fixing of erroneous pronunciation patterns in thinking and only at the third stage of training, when the words are firmly and correctly fixed in the long-term memory of the trainees, it is recommended that they be repeated after the announcer with the obligatory self-control of correct reproduction, for example, using a tape recorder in recording mode, as well as a microphone and headphones, which ensures self-control of the correctness of their own pronunciation by the learner. Moreover, in order to "automate the reproduction" of the learned foreign words, it is recommended to memorize them through "live images", without the pronunciation of Russian words, which greatly accelerates their fixation in long-term memory and provides "instant memorization" as necessary, for example, in oral speech ( monologue or dialogue).

 Control cards are designed to learn foreign words in the mode of conscious perception at the level of visual recognition. To make them cut mock-ups (words that correspond to this lesson). The teaching methodology in this mode is as follows: they mix cards, take any of them, look at a foreign word and try to remember its meaning.

 If they were able to recall the translation of a word, then simultaneously with the mental pronunciation of the word in a foreign language, its visual image is presented as brightly as possible and immediately, without delay, proceed to work with the next word.

 If you do not remember the meaning of the word, then they look at the translation of the word, pronounce it mentally in a foreign language and construct a visual image, after which they proceed to work with the next word.

 If this word denotes a noun, it is necessary to visualize this object as brightly as possible, its shape, color, weight, tactile (tactile) sensations from mental contact with it. And all this is instantaneous, like a bright flash in the consciousness of the learner. Fantasy is used to represent abstract nouns. For example, "space" can be represented in the form of an abyss, "courage" - in the form of a musketeer.

 If it is an adjective, then it must be tied to some noun. For example, the adjective "green" is represented as a green forest, a green building, green grass.

 Verbs are remembered by the mental representation of a specific action. We must strive to get the maximum sensations from mental images.

 If you think not in words but in images, the effectiveness of memorization increases tenfold. With each new occupation, visual samples in the student’s mind will gradually become more and more vivid and clear, appear and disappear instantly, like frames in a color film. At the same time, against the background of the visual image, the student must each time present a printed foreign word, as if looking at a picture in which the artist wrote the name in foreign letters in large block letters. The name is placed in the center of the picture.

 Words in the control mode are scanned quickly, avoiding repeated repetition of the same word. In any case, during the first thirty hours of training, the student must bring the speed of viewing cards to the speed of viewing vocabulary in the "AUDIO" mode. It is necessary to look through vocabulary in the control mode in a circle, that is, in each new lesson, the student must work with a new set of words (at the end of the video lesson you will find out which words the student needs to work with in the "CONTROL" mode).

 In the process of studying vocabulary, it should be borne in mind that the effect of memorization begins to appear only after about 60 hours of working with vocabulary. This is because the student is simultaneously working with a large amount of information. During the first fifty hours of training, the memory effect may not manifest itself. However, after some time a certain critical value is reached and the words begin to be remembered all at once, like an avalanche.

 Example.

 Students were seated in front of the screen and presented with a list of foreign words with translation so that each couple of words accounted for 80 ms. And although in this mode it was not only possible to read, but it was impossible to recognize the words, for several days of such work, an average of 60% of the words presented were learned at the recognition level on average. In total, for 10 days of such training (during a full school day in combination with an autogenic training to relieve fatigue), the student memorized up to 6,000 foreign words, and after a test one and a half years later it turned out that at least half of the words remained in memory even of those who did not use the acquired knowledge of a foreign language during this time. And this is about 3000 words. For comparison: 1,500 words are enough for independent communication in everyday life, and 2,500 words for reading newspapers without a dictionary.

 This example indicates that the proposed method of accelerated teaching of foreign languages allows the learner to acquire a huge vocabulary in a short time, which at the next stage of training contributes to his accelerated mastery of speaking skills. The method allows free translation of the text, understanding of the interlocutor and reading literature.

Claims (6)

 1. A method of accelerating the study of foreign languages, including sensory and subsensory teaching methods and autogenic training, characterized in that first they conduct an autogenic training to mobilize the mental and physical strength of the learner, then carry out the subsensory learning step, which consists in visual perception by the learner of the suggestological part of the video, including the material being studied, for example, various pairs of words in a foreign language and their translation into the learner’s language, then go to the sensory stage of training Ia consisting of audiovisual conscious perception contained in the second part of the training video information comprising her pronunciation of the learner, and with control cards containing the material under study, by creating a trainee associative visual images of the studied material, such as words.  2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that each pair of words is shown on a monitor screen for 40 to 80 ms.  3. The method according to any one of claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the subsensory stage, audiovisual perception and work with control cards are carried out for equal periods of time, each of which is in the range of 10-15 minutes.  4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the pronunciation of the studied material at the beginning of training is carried out mentally, then they proceed to its mental repetition with the inclusion of articulation, and complete by repeating the material after the speaker aloud.  5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the correct pronunciation of the studied material in a foreign language is controlled using a tape recorder in recording mode, a microphone and headphones.  6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the autogenic training includes the following principles of self-control: desire, joy, relaxation and concentration.