lang activity proposition

[Horia PELLE]

A tough nut to crack, indeed!
So the only way to display videoclips would be to let the individual user
place a link of his choice?

Pe 02.10.2016 14:46, "Horia PELLE" <horricane at gmail.com> a scris:

> 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 <https://youtu.be/fYJA26EjPEg> (youtu.be/fYJA26EjPEg),
> cute <https://youtu.be/CCOSZxD7gtI> (youtu.be/CCOSZxD7gtI), dog
> <https://youtu.be/4PjHe2xPwa8> (youtu.be/4PjHe2xPwa8) and huge
> <https://youtu.be/bfV3oGZozkY> (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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