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Once new informationhasbeenfilteredby theknowledge base andlinkedto somethingknownitbecomescomprehensible.

New informationisfilteredbythe existingknowledge base.Informationthatcannotbe relatedtowill beignored

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Communicative ApproachStudent centred learning

bymeans ofbrainstorming and mind

mapping - Communication

Informationoverload(thereis alotofinformation that weare exposedto that overwhelms us andourcapacity)

Howdoes ourbrain work?

Brainmapping-nervecellsandsynapsesandflow ofinformation

bits.Mindmappingcopies this.

CPUherethesynapses arew ireslinkingtoinputanoutputdevices

Processinginformation Informationinputis takenintoprocessingmemory.

Already existinginformationthatis known,i.e.,it has beenlearnedbefore(informationor methods of processing(program) is retrievedfromshort-,mid- orlong-termmemory)[inthe computer thiswouldbeafloppy disk,aROMor aharddisk]andtransferred intotheprocessingmemory [inthecomputer's CPUthiswouldbetheALU(Algorithmic-Logical-Unit).

Intheprocessingmemory new and'old'informationarematchedandprocessed.

Onceprocessinghas finishedtheoutcomeis storedas outputintomemoryfor futureuse.

Theessentialdifferencebetw eenacomputer andabrainis,thatthefirstismechanic andthelatter is dynamic.

A mechanic devicewillnever losememory,unless thereis ahard diskcrash.Informationinmemory willthusalways befound.

A dynamic devicelikeour brainw illnotalways findstoredinformation,becausethereis theelementof forgettingduetosynapses-connections beinglost.

Tosupportthebrain retrieveinformationfaster andspeedup processingvisualaids areideal.Thesevisualaids couldbeprint,images or brainstormingandmindmaps.

Repetitionalsohelps tore-buildthesynapses-connections.(Honeywell Bull)

Comprehensible/

meaningful input =input that weareabletorelateto.

CrashenTNA p55:'...w hatever helpscomprehensionis important.This is w hyvisualaids aresouseful... visuals supply...the"hereandnow"...'

Speakingfluency is not"taught"directly it"emerges" after thelearner has builtupcompetencethroughcomprehensibleinput,seeCrashenTNA p32.

Contextualisedvocabulary to supportunderstandingrenders inputcomprehensible- seeCrashenTNA p 55

Becauseof this my students mustmaintainavocabulary notebookthat ischeckedeachsession.

Students areprovidedw itha separatemindmaponhow touse andmaintainavocabulary notebook.

Learningisbasedonwhatwealready havelearnt (what weknow)

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