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“PlanetRead is doing wonderful work in India, that's Great!!!
It will bring the people who ignored by the community to the light of knowledge, they will stand as people of knowledge. God is using the PlanetRead to take care of poor and underprivileged one. Thanks a lot, Joseph Jayakumar
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Joseph Jayakumar
United States
August 26 2010 | 23:51 hrs.
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“Hi, I think this is such an effective method for improving reading skills in a language. I would like to share my experience in this area here. I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer at a Primary Teachers College in Uganda. I found that the majority of the teacher trainees (ages 19-22) had poor English language reading skills. I started screening for them the Hollywood movies from my collection with the English subtitles turned on. I could actually observe a vast improvement in their reading skills by the end of the term. I believe this method worked because they were trying to follow a piece of dialog in full in the context of a plot. I started adding to the repertoire other language movies (such as Japanese, Farsi, and Hindi) with English subtitles turned on. This really reinforced the skills they had gained with the same language subtitling. They could actually recount/recite some vital pieces of the dialog verbatim (which they had read in English as the titles flashed by) from these foreign language movies! Again, it worked because the movie/plot line drove the reading, not some dull context-less exercise. I consider this part should be a follow-up supplement and indeed could be a way to measure the progress gained in the Same Language Subtitles regimen. Thanks.
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Reva Chandrasekaran
USA
July 07 2010 | 00:02 hrs.
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“Pretty nice site, wants to see much more on it! :)
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Jeremy
United States
August 11 2008 | 17:35 hrs.
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Hello - I have been a fan of Kothari and SLS for years. I am a SPED teacher/MA.ED in Tech/Curriculum in Hawaii. I have been actively using SLS, musical subtitling and Karafun for last 15 years - very effective in English with below grade level readers. I have had good results with High School students, on a broad range of reading levels.
My paper/research (which was largely based on Kothari--) \"Same-Language-Subtitling and Karaoke: The Use of Subtitled Music as a Reading Activity in a High School Special Education Classroom.\" is available online.
Thank you for all the pioneering work that you folks are doing. I hope to one day see MTV with SLS!--Greg McCall, Hawaii July 2008
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Greg McCall
United States
July 11 2008 | 14:16 hrs.
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“Interesting concept. Quite practical too. I improved my telugu reading skills by reading (and guessing) the names of actors etc. before the movie. (I knew to speak Telugu but not read as I studied Tamil at school). My father used to correct me and help me back then. If the subtitles come in songs, I guess we could learn it ourselves without anyone to help. If we could have any technique to learn totally new language like German in an easy method like this, it would be great!. Nyways Kudos to your team.
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Rajesh K
Australia
April 06 2008 | 10:46 hrs.
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“WOW.
This would work anywhere.
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Bob McKeand
United States
February 01 2008 | 16:57 hrs.
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“You have an outstanding good and well structured site.
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Jeremy
United States
December 04 2007 | 05:42 hrs.
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“Wonderful and informative web site.
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Jeremy
United States
December 04 2007 | 03:41 hrs.
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“How can I download SLS on my computer
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Vivekananda
November 01 2007 | 15:07 hrs.
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“hi. nice blog . thanks.
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robert
Slovakia
September 23 2007 | 14:37 hrs.
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“Hi
Good Site . Nice work.
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lokimikoj
Taiwan
September 22 2007 | 06:15 hrs.
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“hi all. nice site. by.
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alex
Slovakia
September 19 2007 | 19:18 hrs.
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“Hi all!
Very interesting site. Hope it will always be alive!
G'night
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fopikolijok
Germany
September 12 2007 | 22:16 hrs.
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“Hi all!
At you the excellent site, a lot of useful info and good design, thank.
G'night
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likopinko
China
September 11 2007 | 02:06 hrs.
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“Wonderful and informative web site.
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Jonn
United States
August 28 2007 | 07:40 hrs.
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