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LEARNING SPOKEN ENGLISH
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Introduction
You have an opportunity for a better paying job, but you need to
improve your English before you can apply. Or, you want to enroll in a
university in the United States, but your English is not good enough yet.
You have already taken English classes for two years in secondary
school. Maybe you have studied more English at the university. You
know English grammar and can write, but you need to learn how to
speak English.
And you need to improve your spoken English very quickly.
This book will tell you how to retrain your mind—and your
tongue—in order to learn fluent spoken English.
With the information from this book, you can learn to speak English
in half of the time it normally takes.
Throughout this book, I will emphasize spoken English.
Chapter 1: Teaching Your Tongue to Speak English explains the con-
cept on which this Spoken English Learned Quickly method is built.
The remaining chapters tell you how to apply that information as you
learn to speak English fluently.
Wikipedia then describes closed-loop control as follows:
To avoid the problems of the open-loop
controller,
control
theory
introduces
feedback.
A
closed-loop
controller
uses
feedback to control states or outputs of a
dynamical system. Its name comes from the
information path in the system: process
inputs (e.g. voltage applied to a motor) have
an effect on the process outputs (e.g.
velocity . . . of the motor), which is
measured with sensors and processed by the
controller; the result (the control signal)
is used as input to the process, closing the
loop.
Human speech is a closed-loop system
Human speech is a complex learned skill and is dependent on a
number of memory and neurological functions. Speech is a closed-loop
system because sensors within the system itself give feedback to the
control portion of the system. The control then corrects and coordinates
ongoing speech. In this case, the mind is in control of the closed-loop
system, the mouth produces the desired product (speech), and auditory
feedback from the ears and feedback from the nerve sensors in the
mouth allow the mind to coordinate the speech process in real time.[1]
When you speak your own language, your mind stores all of the
vocabulary you need. Your mind also controls your tongue, mouth, and
breathing. Your hearing is also an important part of the control because
your ears hear everything your mouth says. Therefore, what you say
next is partially dependent on the vocabulary and other information
stored in your mind. But what you say next is also dependent on what
your ears are hearing your mouth say, and on the feedback that is
coming from the nerves in your tongue and mouth.
The best way to learn English
Two skill areas must be emphasized if you want to learn to speak
English fluently. The first is memory (which is involved in both
vocabulary and syntax) and the second is proprioceptive responses
(which are involved in both pronunciation and syntax).
You may be able to learn simple vocabulary-related memory skills
with equal effectiveness by using either verbal or visual training
methods. That is, you may be able to learn pure memory skills equally
well with either spoken drills or written exercises.
However, it is impossible for you to retrain your proprioceptive
sense without hearing your own voice at full speaking volume. Thus, in
my opinion, it is a waste of your time to do written assignments for the
purpose of learning spoken English.