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Research Ideas

By Anonymous
In the Research Methods course we will be choosing a topic that we are interested in and will be able to cross reference against other studies.  I thought here I might start to start to flesh out some ideas.


What happens to language/vocabulary acquisition as measured by? when first-time language users learn from interactive software for the first 6? months

The reason I thought about this is 1 of 2 native English speakers in his class in Brasil. When we arrived everyone that we spoke to said "Oh in 6 months your kids will be fluent in Portuguese, their friends will all speak it on the playground". Well we don't just learn languages being surrounded by immersion alone. What I've noticed is that he is having a hard time making the jump from knowing nothing and not being able to interact in Portuguese to having just enough vocabulary to start to hear the language while others are speaking creating the snowball effect of knowing and more importantly using more and more.
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