A beginner can memorize 7 sentences within 1 hour easily.
This saves lots of time in learning a language.
1. What is the reciting teaching method?
Reciting is the translation from Japanese “Sodoku”(素読). In Japanese, “Rodoku”(朗読) means reading aloud with understanding, and “Sodoku”(素読) means reading aloud without understanding.
The traditional teaching method is to make students understand and then memorize. Reciting teaching method is the opposite. We ask students to recite (Sodoku) in order to memorize, and let them understand the meaning later.
2. The effectiveness of this method
1) From 0 to Eiken Grade 5 (1styear junior high school level) in about 1 month. (Eiken: The EIKEN Test in Practical English Proficiency)
2) This method has made many students not only passed Eiken, but also TOCFL (Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language) and JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test).
3. Theory
1) Forgetting Curve: People forget 56% what they have learned after 1 hour……
2) Studying pyramid: Output a lot, remember a lot.
3) Highway of the Brain: Reciting a lot will make the nerve cell connections thicker. It will enhance the ability to memorize and think.
4) Altitude training: Like an athlete, if he trains at altitude, he will get used to a more difficult environment. When he comes back to the sea level, he will get excellent results.
It is similar to learning violin or piano. Practice makes perfect.
4. Materials
For teaching English, we use past questions from Eiken. The students recite the sample sentences. There are 7 grades of the test: Grade 1, Pre 1, 2, Pre 2, 3, 4, 5.
5. Teaching by demonstration
We can demonstrate this teaching method to anyone who wants to know the details. Please contact: fjoylanguage@gmail.com. We provide Japanese, Chinese and English lessons.
6. Conclusion
We live in a world where we cannot avoid learning foreign languages, but we usually spend a long time learning them. The reciting method saves us a lot of time in learning any language. It is possible to learn a language from 0 to highest level (for example Eiken grade 1) in around 2 years.