frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6944 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German
| Message 393 of 430 08 May 2008 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
CaitO'Ceallaigh wrote:
Everyone says Slucido is wrong ... |
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One big problem is how the discussion was conducted. One may wish to ponder the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_nauseam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion
http://www.mnforsustain.org/student_logical_fallacies_with_r eferences.htm
Edited by frenkeld on 08 May 2008 at 8:06pm
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frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6944 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German
| Message 394 of 430 08 May 2008 at 7:56pm | IP Logged |
reineke wrote:
... regarding the "best method", I am not aware that anyone claimed there was one - except sluicido himself. |
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I think slucido didn't claim there was one either - it is a "straw man" par excellence as far as this discussion goes.
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reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6448 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German
| Message 395 of 430 08 May 2008 at 8:01pm | IP Logged |
frenkeld wrote:
reineke wrote:
... regarding the "best method", I am not aware that anyone claimed there was one - except slucido himself. |
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I think slucido didn't claim there was one either - it is a "straw man" par excellence as far as this discussion goes.
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I was gently poking fun at his first post.
slucido wrote:
I think that methods are not that important. The most important factor is TIME and LOVE devoted to the target language.
Thinking about that, I think the best methods are those that manages to scratch more of your time without you been aware.
For example, I think the DVD movie methods are the best.Why? Because people devote more time to the language without been aware.
Time flies when you're having fun
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I do like the "ad nauseam" bit and I thought what the heck, let's make this 50 pages long.
Edited by reineke on 08 May 2008 at 8:09pm
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 396 of 430 08 May 2008 at 8:20pm | IP Logged |
reineke wrote:
Slucido needs to learn a few things, adjective comparison included |
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That's what I've wanted to say for a long time :-)
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Goindol Senior Member United States Joined 6075 days ago 165 posts - 203 votes
| Message 397 of 430 08 May 2008 at 9:16pm | IP Logged |
CaitO'Ceallaigh wrote:
I would like someone to answer this question, because no one has.
If there "is a best method", what is it? How have you come to that conclusion?
Everyone says Slucido is wrong, that there is a a "best method," but no one can say what it is. Free icecream to whomever gets it right. |
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CaitO'Ceallaigh - as others have said, no one here argued for the existence of a best method. The discussion was rather about whether any method is as good as another given INPUT + OUTPUT + TIME. slucido has insisted on OBJECTIVE scientific data* yet when challenged, cannot provide statistical validity of the OBJECTIVELY SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES he espouses.
*Objectively scientific, meaning roughly that a study is considered valid when its results are 95% likely due to non-random forces.
Please PM me for my address. I'll let you know where to mail the ice cream.
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6676 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 398 of 430 09 May 2008 at 3:37am | IP Logged |
I was very happy this morning because I saw several messages, but we continue talking about nothing
Serpent wrote:
No one denies it that there's no single best method, but that doesn't mean that sensible methods (that involve input+output+time) are equally effective. |
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What are those sensible methods?
What evidence we have apart from subjetive preferences?
I only need consensus between experts.
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6676 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 399 of 430 09 May 2008 at 3:44am | IP Logged |
Goindol wrote:
CaitO'Ceallaigh wrote:
I would like someone to answer this question, because no one has.
If there "is a best method", what is it? How have you come to that conclusion?
Everyone says Slucido is wrong, that there is a a "best method," but no one can say what it is. Free icecream to whomever gets it right. |
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CaitO'Ceallaigh - as others have said, no one here argued for the existence of a best method. The discussion was rather about whether any method is as good as another given INPUT + OUTPUT + TIME. slucido has insisted on OBJECTIVE scientific data* yet when challenged, cannot provide statistical validity of the OBJECTIVELY SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES he espouses.
*Objectively scientific, meaning roughly that a study is considered valid when its results are 95% likely due to non-random forces.
Please PM me for my address. I'll let you know where to mail the ice cream. |
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Do you mean scientists are morons??
The commentaries about sex between angels are very interesting, but the question is simple:
What are those sensible methods?
What evidence we have apart from subjetive preferences? I only need consensus between experts.
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Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6110 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian
| Message 400 of 430 09 May 2008 at 3:44am | IP Logged |
slucido wrote:
I was very happy this morning because I saw several messages, but we continue talking about nothing
Serpent wrote:
No one denies it that there's no single best method, but that doesn't mean that sensible methods (that involve input+output+time) are equally effective. |
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What are those sensible methods?
What evidence we have apart from subjetive preferences?
I only need consensus between experts.
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Nice to see how this thread is coming along. ;-)
SLucido, you have been presented evidence: the experiences of the users of this forum. Also, the same papers you accept, for example F.H.Jackson, M.A.Kaplan, Lessons learned from fifty years of theory and practice in government language teaching, reinforce the same evidence. I'm afraid that you won't find other evidence in these Forums. You should perhaps try Google Scholar or other forums, if the users of this forum are not experts enough for you.
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