Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

Saturday, November 26, 2022

The Internet connects but also separates people.





Automatized AI-based language translators like Google Translate make all of us language specialists. This kind of AI-based solution can translate almost every text or speech into any other language. When that kind of system translates speech, it uses speech to text-application, then it translates the language to English. And after that, it translates English into some other language. 

These kinds of tools are effective and free translation tools. And they are easy to use. So they are making social media applications more effective and fun. But the language and Internet are also making this kind of system dangerous. We must realize that language is not just spoken words.

Language is body language but it's also culture. And if people don't realize that, it can cause problems. The thing is that people must realize that some other people might have different cultural backgrounds. And that person might have different opinions. 

At this point, people misunderstand that we always must accept other people's opinions. We have the right to defend our opinions and values. Even if some other people live in some other country. And even if that person has strong opinions. We have the right to have different opinions than some other people. 

If other people don't like our opinions, that's not a problem. We just can't please everyone, even if we want to. Discussion means that we talk about things at the same level and on an equal footing. Many people think that conversation is synonymous with ordering or commanding people. That is not true. If we want to discuss something we must have the preparedness and will to hear other people's opinions. 

We must not like those opinions. But we must realize that other people might not like our opinions either. Sometimes we face a situation where we must do something that we don't like. In those cases, we have no choice but to select. But that doesn't mean that we like those situations. And in those situations, we also have the right to say that we don't like what we do. 

But in the net, the problem is that. We cannot see the opponent while we discuss in the net. We can give answers to what is not pleasing to those people. This is the problem with text-based discussion boards. In those discussion boards, people just write things. And other people answer those texts if they answer. 

Those texts are the cases where we should think about, what we are writing. Those texts are giving evidence against us. That means nobody knows if we are joking at some discussion board. That's why we must think very carefully about what we say and especially write on the net. 

Friday, November 29, 2019

Autonomous learning in language studies

Autonomous learning in language studies

When we are thinking about the languages, they might be very hard to study. The thing in language studies is that the person who is learning translation or other kinds of things can use every material in the world, and that means that the movies or novels can use as material for learning the translation. If the material is comfortable that would mean, that the learning process feels good, and at the same time interesting, and if the learning process feels good, that would make learning more effective.

A process where the object even doesn't understand or realize being a member of the learning process. In this method, the members of that process feel more comfortable than in the traditional process. In the autonomous learning process, the key element is that learning and teaching are happening automatically, and the person would feel that learning is part of the working life, or rather saying normal life. When we are thinking about the traditional method of learning, the normal method is giving the books to a person, and say that "you are a student, and your mission is to make your works, what is giving by authorities", what is calling as the teachers".

So how we could make this thing more comfortable? We could make the profiles of the students, and see what kind of hobbies they have, or what kind of books they are reading. And then select those books as the course material. This method works best in language studies, where the material is free, and students must "just" translate it. That means that the students can translate their favorite books, or practice the spoken translation from the movies.

Here I use the term "participants of the process" because that highlights the interaction between trainers and students is important. In the learning process, both sides are important. And successful learning needs interaction between trainers and students. But also internal communication and internal communication in the groups are important. In this case, the learning would consist of the schoolwork, but it can also support the advantage of social skills.

The modified gaming environment can support learning.

The virtual environments can make the learning process more effective, and the student can practice any time in the day or night the things like articulation. In this case, the computers can be used as a supporter of learning. The virtual environments are offering the place, where people can practice every day social skills and speak a foreign language. In this case, the system would act like a non-violent computer game like second life, where people are walking and make every kind of thing, like giving orders, how to fix machines. And artificial intelligence would notice the errors in articulation. This kind of method would be very interesting, and it can be created by using existing computer systems.

Interaction between participants of the process is important. In this case, the participants would get half of the data, and getting a successful solution, must those people discuss with each other. When we are thinking about children, we must understand that they are learning new skills very fast. And modern computers like laptops and tablets require fast learning. So in some cases, children can teach adults by using interactive methods. The idea is that schoolwork is things like writing orders for mobile devices or something like that.

The problem of the cases, where we should teach adult people the use of computers is cultural. Adults would not take orders from children. And this is why we should create some ideas, how to motivate people to learn, without embarrassing them. So we can give children orders to create the presentations, or write instructions as the schoolwork, and then the teacher can see, are the instructions properly made. That would make the interaction between adults and children effective. This method can also work in very patriarchal societies, where men afraid to lose their faces. The teaching can be covered as the presentations.

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