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Ready to try learning English by the immersion method?
“When you immerse yourself in a language, you will find that over time that this new language has permeated into your consciousness.”

Immersion is probably the best approach to learning a foreign language, but also one that requires much time and effort. It is more than simply watching foreign movies or visiting particular websites. As the word itself suggests, you must be completely absorbed in the language. Therefore, your success will depend highly on how much you can dedicate yourself to it.
If you are living in a foreign country, this approach will benefit you tremendously, since you will be forced to use the language to accomplish even the most basic tasks, and with time, this will effectively hardwire the language to your brain.
If, on the other hand, you plan on just watching a movie every now and then, then the effects of this approach will be close to negligible.
Immersion works because, given enough exposure, the brain is able to identify patterns (such as grammar) subconsciously. However in order to do that it needs constant exposure, whether that be by books, movies, or talking to native speakers, it just needs to be immersed. The more exposure you can get, the faster you will learn.
So if you are able to immerse yourself in a language, I highly recommend this approach as it is very beneficial and rewarding.
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A Practical Approach
Let's return to the idea of thinking directly in English, chunk by chunk. The idea here is first of all to learn language in larger chunks. Why? Because we seldom use a word in isolation without a language context.
For example, we tend to use the verb 'spend' with 'time' or 'money' and often with a gerund, as in 'spend too much time answering emails'.
In practical terms, you halve the work and create a better memory association for better fluency by learning the whole phrase.
A lot of the time spent learning individual words and then expecting them to come together meaningfully at speed when speaking, could be better spent learning whole expressions (aurally as well as visually) and appropriate structures to 'pour them into'. The idea when speaking is to draw on whole expressions and familiar verb forms to create chunks of meaningful speech at a time, not full sentences. The first chunk might be a signal phrase like 'I'm afraid', the second chunk could be 'I haven't finished the report yet' and the third 'as I spent too much time answering emails'.

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Acquiring a sound grasp of English shall carry you beyond school exams; mastering the English language will help you at university level, and also when you venture into the job market.
There is a big jump from O & A levels to IELTS or Cambridge Advanced English (CAE) as many educators have pointed out. Besides having to pass these Proficiency Exams, aspiring university students have to be proficient in English to do well in their courses.
Passing exams at school has been shown to be inadequate as many high scorers are still unable to carry a meaningful conversation, express their opinions or participate in discussions.
Language learning takes time and effort. It is best to prepare yourself or your child early so as to have a sound foundation for the future.

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Let's return to the idea of thinking directly in English, chunk by chunk.

The idea here is first of all to learn language in larger chunks. Why? Because we seldom use a word in isolation without a language context. For example, we tend to use the verb 'spend' with 'time' or 'money' and often with a second verb in the form of a gerund, as in 'spend too much time answering emails'. So, you halve the work and create a better memory association for better fluency by learning the whole phrase.
A lot of the time spent learning individual words and then expecting them to come together meaningfully at speed when speaking, could be better spent learning whole expressions (aurally as well as visually) and appropriate structures to 'pour them into'. The idea when speaking is to draw on whole expressions and familiar verb forms to create chunks of meaningful speech at a time, not full sentences. The first chunk might be a signal phrase like 'I'm afraid', the second chunk could be 'I haven't finished the report yet' and the third 'as I spent too much time answering emails'.

Reading fluency
He wanted to be able to read more quickly while at the same time getting all the important information. He was reading a text aloud (it was Esiotrot by Roald Dahl, one of my personal favourites) and I noticed he tended to pause after almost each word. Clearly it was taking him time to put the individual words together so they had meaning. Together we figured out that the cause of the hesitation was in fact the same as for my language learners - he wasn't reading ahead and he was paying attention to unimportant words. I don't know for sure if it was due to his learning difficulty that he didn't naturally read ahead or mentally highlight key information words but he did find it easy to implement our method and his reading speed improved.

So, what did we do? I got him to break up the sentence into chunks or meaningful segments (a comma often indicates a new chunk) and underline key information words in each chunk. Then he practised reading aloud, pausing between chunks to allow time to read ahead (the next chunk) and emphasising the underlined key words. In other words, he practised reading as he would speak....fluently, meaningfully. He quickly got very good at anticipating where in a phrase or sentence he would find key information (e.g. verb near front) without the need for underlining and at paying less attention to unimportant words, speeding up comprehension. There are many parallels here with language learners and fluency, as I later concluded.

Conclusion
My understanding of this process at the time was that the young student had learnt to read more fluently by 'thinking aloud and ahead' in natural, spoken chunks so their meaning registered almost immediately. One of the essential things language learners need to be able to do for fluency is to think aloud (aurally) and ahead, chunk by chunk, pausing in between, placing key information in expected positions (imagine google scanning your text in English).

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