Monday, March 19, 2012

To summarize by computer, or to summarize by human...that is the question.

I believe that computer summaries have both, advantages and disadvantages. It definitely makes life easier for a student, but at the same time it imposes a sort of "laziness" in terms of reading the full text. Maybe it can even be considered as cheating in a way.
Even though I support the use of certain social media and blogging websites, I still have trouble accepting such "ease" in terms of understanding and highlighting the important parts of the given text. The whole process just makes you dependent on "the easy way out" which can be dangerous with time in terms of not being able to do much on your own.

"How do English songs affect the language learning process in terms of unconscious memorization of certain sentence templates ? "

I chose this topic because I find it very interesting to observe the effects of the English songs on memory and language learning skills. We all know that teaching songs is a common method that is used to teach kids a language. Examples can be the "abc" (alphabet) song, "if you happy and you know it", "hokey pokey", etc. From my own experiences I know that after a while I got used to certain sentence patters and I memorized them unconsciously, which made it easier for me to structure grammatically correct sentences in English just by changing the verb.