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Jay Doubleyou: my favourite tv
Can I learn English by watching television?
The short and simple answer is, No. If you are tired and cannot sleep, then watch television. If you enjoy American football or baseball, watch television. If you are too ill to work or walk, watch television. But if you want to improve your English, or your own language for that matter, then read a book or magazine, go to the pub, talk to a friend, study something - anything - in the language, take up collecting American pop songs or English postage stamps, find a hobby which will connect you to the country, write long letters in the language to a penpal in Nepal... Anything, probably, is better for you than watching television.
Research among small children has now made clear that television is worse than useless. It actually does you harm. Some harassed mothers have the habit of parking their babies, like cars, in front of the screen. In Britain, a research unit checked a sample of 300 such babies, all from the same social background. The researchers discovered that at the age of three those infants who watched a great deal of television had a language ability one year behind those of the control group, who did not.
One of the great advantages of video is that it can, like the audio cassette, be repeated. Repetition, especially repetition which as much as possible avoids boredom, is the key to language learning. A movie can be recorded, and after being watched in the normal way, it can be replayed to listen to, with the video off. The dialogue heard can then be linked in the mind to the memory of the movie or programme as seen some hours or days earlier.
Under these circumstances, television becomes a tool which can be deliberately used by the active and serious independent student as a memorising aid.
The use of television for studying and improving English language fluency.
And it could also be argued that TV is bad for you anyway:
Jay Doubleyou: turn off your tv
There are other opinions, however:
Robby of EnglishHarmony says 'Yes' and 'No'...
How To Improve Spoken English By Watching TV - Episode #21 - YouTube
What you need to do is – write them down in your notepad. And mind –don’t translate them into your native language
 It’s going to have a detrimental effect on your fluency so use other, simpler English words to describe the phrases. Also make sure you don’t write just a single word in your dictionary – always try to use it in the context it was used when you heard it.
Improve Spoken English By Watching TV | English Harmony
The same opinion here, from, an academic point of view:
How to Improve Your English Skills By Watching Television
... from a language school:
Watching TV can help you to improve your English
... for 'advanced students':
Improve English by watching TV - Teacher Bien
Lastly, a very useful general list on 'how to learn english' as an independent learner:
3 Ways to Improve Your English - wikiHow
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There are other opinions, however:
Robby of EnglishHarmony says 'Yes' and 'No'...
How To Improve Spoken English By Watching TV - Episode #21 - YouTube
What you need to do is – write them down in your notepad. And mind –don’t translate them into your native language
 It’s going to have a detrimental effect on your fluency so use other, simpler English words to describe the phrases. Also make sure you don’t write just a single word in your dictionary – always try to use it in the context it was used when you heard it.Improve Spoken English By Watching TV | English Harmony
The same opinion here, from, an academic point of view:
How to Improve Your English Skills By Watching Television
... from a language school:
Watching TV can help you to improve your English
... for 'advanced students':
Improve English by watching TV - Teacher Bien
Lastly, a very useful general list on 'how to learn english' as an independent learner:
3 Ways to Improve Your English - wikiHow
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