lang activity proposition

[Horia PELLE]

I have a proposition for the lang activity. Although this activity is complex, very instructive and useful for vocabulary and writing purposes, I think it misses the liveliness of normal/everyday human language. The reason for this inert/still feature is the “atomization” of language in 564 small basic words. They can be learnt individually, but in this case they will only remain 564 pieces of a puzzle, with little value in real life communication. In my opinion, all these 564 small blocks of language would exponentially increase their learning value if they could be individually exemplified with everyday human speech.

My idea is to place a button/link near each word image, and when it is clicked, it would open a popup window with an external video clip in which one (or more) persons say a phrase containing that word. Ideally, that phrase should be a clip from a good movie, so that pronunciation and emotion could reach maximum levels.
In this way, the kids would learn two things: (1) to use all those 564 small pieces of language in real verbal communication and (2) the emotional intelligence of human speech, which is a big lack in most computer-assisted learning programs.

I began to test short video clips a long time ago, on my little boy, and they all proved very successful (he easily remembers them, and he likes to recite/interprete these clips very often). I provided here four examples, for the words coin (youtu.be/fYJA26EjPEg), cute (youtu.be/CCOSZxD7gtI), dog (youtu.be/4PjHe2xPwa8) and huge (youtu.be/bfV3oGZozkY) → please take a look at them. Maybe they aren't the best examples or format, but you can feel the fluent everyday language and the broad spectrum of human emotions + body language of these short clips.

Of course, the copyrights would certainly raise serious concerns, but if this problem could not be solved by GCompris team, then it could be easily overcome by the individual user. What I mean is that GCompris could provide by default a link of a clip without copyright problems, but the user could be given permission to customize the link and place his/her own link, with the preferred video clip.

What do you think?
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