"What's wrong with this method of developing one's English skills?" you may say. Commuting and reading magazines, books, or just listening to music is a regular thing to do, right?If so, why not to spend the same time with learning English vocabulary, instead?
Actually, I personally, have nothing against it. All methods are good, why not transport self-studies?
Let's talk about a few most common habits of travelling learners or learning travelers.
Group A. These students just learn all from small dictionaries. Any time these dictionaries can be taken from the beg and after a few minutes of 'learning' taken back into the bag.
Group B. After texts vocabulary from the textbooks are read and learned by the advocates of this method.
Group C. Card 'players'. A pack of self-made cards with one language on one side and their equivalents on the other one.
Group D. Printed/hand-written lists of words collected from the texts or other sources.
A tiny bit more thoughts about each approach. First of all. Whatever is done is netter than nothing is done at all. Period.
With method A learners have little motivation for blindly repeating the vocabulary and the temptation to divide the words on 'necessary' and 'unnecessary'. Let's say a student sees the word and based on his own native language experience accepts this word or phrase as a candidate for probable future life usage or, on the other hand, for neglecting. The real life situations where the ones or the others may or may not be used can be very much different.
Method B seems more productive for a learner knows the situation described in the text and hopes that something similar may some day happen to him. This learning makes more sense, though.
Method C doesn't make much sense to me as it evolves a mechanical memory for learning the words and phrases that are not gathered into a story and learned separately from the contest.
Method D is the most useful as it goes as a logical continuation of the process of learning that was started in a classroom.
As a conclusion, we can acknowledge the fact that the bus, train or metro atmosphere with people talking around can hardly help us concentrate on the words and phrases we so no wonder that most of transport learning has little or no progress at all.
Till next time
George
Group B. After texts vocabulary from the textbooks are read and learned by the advocates of this method.
Group C. Card 'players'. A pack of self-made cards with one language on one side and their equivalents on the other one.
Method C doesn't make much sense to me as it evolves a mechanical memory for learning the words and phrases that are not gathered into a story and learned separately from the contest.
Method D is the most useful as it goes as a logical continuation of the process of learning that was started in a classroom.
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