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Post by Otaku on Jul 15, 2008 11:04:26 GMT 8
Has anyone else heard music being played in the background of a lot of the English conversations/dialogues on the CDs?
What's up with that?
Since when has background music ever HELPED the students hear or MADE IT EASIER for the students to understand the conversations?
Would background music not be irritating and distracting to the students? I would imagine the crisp pronunciation of the English dialogues would be highly important, especially when they often contain NEW vocabulary words the students are studying, and music would only serve to distract and hinder the learning process.
Desho?
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Post by junkdna on Jul 15, 2008 13:45:03 GMT 8
Agreed, but then again, there is the idea that they must get used to listening to English in a natural environment (ie an environment with background noise). Perhaps a more realistic background of birds or insects or traffic or music in a store would be more appropriate (kept at proper levels of course).
On a tangent, is it me, or are movies (Hollywood) getting harder and harder to hear the dialogue in due to the extreme background music blasting through every scene?
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Post by Otaku on Jul 15, 2008 14:05:27 GMT 8
I agree natural enviroment noises are appropriate....BUT NOT AT AT THE BASIC LEVEL! When the students pronounce 'like' as 'li-qoo', I think they have enough on their plate without hearing that horrendous background music.
Also, have you ever watched those info-mericals with that horrible dink-dink-dink-dink music being played in the background. That's exactly the kind of music being played on these listening CDs. I think this kind of music has done some type of mental scaring to my brain because when I heard it, I couldn't figure out if I wanted to pick up two pieces of chalk and ram them into my ears, or if jumping out the 2nd-story window.
Instead, I chose to stand there because I didn't want to clean the chalk out of my ears later on, and I could have just imagined that after my jump, I would have been lying on the ground in agony with a broke legs and arms and teachers would have rushed up to me and instead of getting me medical treatment, they would have been scolding me for not setting a good example for the students.
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Post by prncsfungi on Jul 17, 2008 10:58:53 GMT 8
Hahah so true Otaku. They would probably make you clean up your own blood stain afterwards. And no Junk, it isn't just you...I can hardly dechipher some of the dialouge in the newer action movies due to the background music/sounds.
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Post by yopparaisaru on Jul 17, 2008 11:16:30 GMT 8
The background music is a definite distraction and not helpful at all for lower level classes, which is pretty much all of JHS.
As to the new action movies comment though I have one thing to say. Why are you listening to the lines anyway?!? The scripts of those movies are horrible, contrived jokes and bad puns abound with the not so crafty insertions of stupid catch phrases from the main protagonist. I'm actually greatful to the background noise/bakuhatsu's drowning out the drivel that comes out of the actors mouths. Besides its not like you need the dialogue to figure out whats going on. Summary of all action movies since 2001. vaguely middle eastern looking people appear on screen (terrorists), que single goverment agent (white guy) with a regular standard issue glock .22 that magically never runs out of bullets and manages to find every terrorist shooting machine guns at him while only suffering minor bumps or cuts with occassional vital area missing bullet. Meanwhile for no apparent reason helicopters and jet fighters fight overhead and explode around single government agent man resorting in close calls but no damage. Also cars crash for no apparent reason and are summarily engulfed in fire usually resulting in yet another unrational giant explosion. Also sometimes bridges collapse, no one knows why.
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Post by junkdna on Jul 17, 2008 12:09:57 GMT 8
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Post by yopparaisaru on Jul 17, 2008 15:52:46 GMT 8
sorry junk, but i think my comments were taken out of context you see, when i said 'contrived' and 'horrible' i actually meant wonderful and completely original.
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Post by junkdna on Jul 22, 2008 7:41:43 GMT 8
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Post by crustpunker on Jul 24, 2008 14:09:09 GMT 8
I often employ BGM when the kids are doing review worksheets..I like to have something going on in the background other than dead silence. Also if there are any games that don't require much listening, something like English shiritori I often play songs then too... at the very least I can listen to some good tunes. hehe.
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