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Whenever
we speak of "concepts", "information" or
"knowledge", the importance of the term arises:
everything starts from words, from their meaning,
from their written form and the way they are
pronounced.
More than
mere sounds, words are useful to describe concepts.
Linguistic resources are useful for term
recognition and term disambiguation,
recognizing the differences and similarities
between phonetics and writing.
Phonetic searching
Besides
spell-checking (how a word should be correctly
written), also the correspondence between the written
word and what our auditive perception suggests
is important.
Phonetic
searching (the recognition of the different
associations of letters that may easily sound
alike to the common ear) plays an important role
in:
- Reading
and learning to
read
- Writing
and learning to
write
- Learning
our first language
- Learning a
second language
- Learning
support for
dyslexics
- Cognitive
therapy
and
rehabilitation
- Studying
linguistics
- Studying
or analyzing literature
-
Speech
therapy activities
- Searching
a knowledge base
- Searching
in Internet
- Most
professions for which language is fundamental.
A well known
crisis in reading (it's from this that the
"dyslexia" term springs from) is the difficulty
in converting the written form of a
word into phonetic code. Nowadays, most
researchers seem to support the phonological
origin of the impairment, a
primary deficit in processing and
discriminating phonemes. Phonetic searching
can be particularly beneficial for this reason.
It is
widely known that many 'writers' and
speakers play with assonances and
dissonances.
Language
learning with Knowledge Master.
Knowledge Master is a resource for both teaching
and learning languages.
It's really possible to learn a new
language: we can activate our innate
language-learning ability. Science has
demonstrated that we are all born with a special
predisposition to language development and
learning.
Linguistics and language are
also subjects of study in psychology, and all knowledge has a
linguistic foundation. So we must not be
surprised that KM
methods and strategies are the best choice for
learning a language. Using knowledge management
methods for language learning closes a virtuous
cycle. Knowledge Master uses the relationships
between language, thought and meaning.
The natural way to learn - not archaic methods,
but
creativity
in language learning and teaching.
Learning with
knowledge management relies on the knowledge
structures the learner certainly possesses or can
construct while learning. Knowledge structures
remain longer when contents are learned together
with language, and language learning is more
consistent when it's supported with contents. We
learn this from birth.
Knowledge Master
maps can be integrated with video, images,
annotations, external texts and sound in your
own maps. Map contents can also be animated,
enhancing communication. This way of communication can
be augmented with vocal support in more than 13
languages.
Grammar and
grammatical rules
are better and easier learned when using and
reusing grammatical structures. Knowledge bases
offer the ideal method to represent grammar and
meaning altogether, in the same message.
Cognitive use of voice (in several languages) in
Knowledge Master is used to focus on meaning.
In this, knowledge structures can't be
beaten.
Other facts that support
language learning with
KM:
- Voice and interface can
be switched with a click to one of the many
languages available.
- Knowledge Master is
endowed with a local translation service.
The local translation service can help with
translations from and to most common
languages.
- In language learning,
repetition and review are mandatory. The
computer never gets tired and doesn't know
anything about free time. It's indefatigable.
- Own learner's exercises
can be recorded with his own voice for
comparison and/or evaluation.
This method provides constant
feedback so you’ll feel
confident in your ability to
speak, listen, write, and
read accurately in a language
.
- A Knowledge Master
knowledge base is visual, auditive (uses
voice) and
multimedia.
- It uses phonetics and phonics, pronunciation...
read aloud. Grasp the meaning through
context, use voice to communicate.
- Phonetic searching can be
used to disambiguate and to expand
vocabulary.
- It uses structures and
spell-check as writing aids.
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