Wednesday, March 7, 2007

A learner's view on fluency

学習の学習
... [L]anguage learning is only a tool; finding what you can do with it is much more important than being fluent.
(Nakao, 2005, p. 6)

What Nakao suggests, as she reflects on difficulties in a challenging new environment, is belief in a need to actually use the tool that you're getting in order to find out "what you can do with it."

I share her belief in the necessity of language use both in learning a language and in remembering what you've learned.

Use it or lose it; blog!

Reference

Nakao, Yuri. (2005). Discovering learner/teacher autonomy in myself: remarks on the one-day LD Conference. Learning Learning: JALT Learner Development SIG Newsletter, 12(1), 5-10.

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