WHAT IS A LANGUAGE OUTPUT?

What is a Language Output?

 

Learning language is not about what to learn but how to learn. 

This is all that matters. 

The ability of a language only changes with your language output. 

I am going to present the importance of the language output, concrete examples of language output, and the sustainable method of a language output to robust self-learning during a language- learning period. 

In terms of the wording: language output, there is also an antonym: a language input.

What do they mean in a language context?

A language input means that you absorb and digest the information using your body activities such as your eyes, ears, and hands, which lead to reading or listening normally.

On the other hand, a language output means that you process the absorbed information and produce it into reality using your body, which lead to writing, speaking, or taking any action related with the use of a language that you are learning. 

Reading materials are a language input. 

If you tell your friends about what you read or write a summary about that by writing, it is a language output. 

In the context of a language-learning, reading textbooks is a language input. 

If you work on an exercise book or take an exam by writing out or speaking, it is a language output. 

In addition, if you teach someone what you learned, that is also a language output.

A language input is great and necessary. 

It helps you gain more knowledge regarding a language that you are learning. 

It enables you to have more vocabulary, more grammar. 

However, if you stick to a language input all the time, you are trapped into the situation where, for example, in the context of a sport, you only watch videos and read books to understand techniques, but you never participate in the real practice nor match.

The process of learning language is like a sport.

You are not among audience nor a critic but a player on the field. 

If you do not use a language in a real world, your language skills are not improved. 

You are not audience. 

Therefore, your main task is not to be a bystander nor to get involved watching, listening, reading but to be engaged in speaking and writing. 

You are not a critic. 

Therefore, your main task is not to argue against regarding what a correct grammar is or what is correct or not correct in anything. 

If you do not make exposed consequences by speaking and writing, 

you are unlikely to know how well your language level is and you are not aware of what you really need to improve. 

It is quite a similar situation where, after meets of sports, there are more needs to be addressed for you to get better since there is some a discernible result about what you went through. 

However, if you do not take any action and not perform any language output activities, you really do not know what is necessary for you to get better at what you are facing.

In short, you can improve the knowledge base of yours by a language input. 

However, if you do not expose it in a real world and get clear results or feedback, it is unattainable to identify the gap between your present language level and your former one. 

Therefore, a language output is as paramount. 

Keep it in mind! 

Thanks for reading,

Hilano Aquihisa