Our+project

=** Context **=

Eugénie: This year, my principal objective is to obtain a TOEIC score of 700 or more. To succeed on it, I can listen and read english but my main gap is still vocabulary and grammar. That's why I want to be able to remember sustainably the vocabulary and the grammar rules I learn.

Sébastien: This year, I would like to improve my vocabulary in many lexical fields. Actually, I don't really feel the need to improve it, because I can understand pretty well most of the conversation I hear. I can also understand de meaning of most of the texts I read, books, magazines, newspapers... But actually it is not enough when I speak, because I can hardly nuance anything when I speak and it is sometimes difficult to say precisely what I mean. By this way, I would like to succed my TOEIC test whith a score of 900. I think it will be "easy" for the listening part, but to succed on the other one, I think I should improve my vocabulary and my grammar. That's why I want to realise this project with Eugénie: How the learning of this two fields can be sustainable?

= **The Issue: ** =

A first axis of our Issue about the sustainable learning of Vocabulary and Grammar is to understand what are principal mechanisms of the memory and the main existing mathods of self directed learning. self. By this way, it will be easier to define a real conceptual Issue, based on concrete facts, and to decline our realisation in a concrete schedule.



= **The Conceptual Issue: ** =

Our common objective is to improve our TOEIC vocabulary. The first thing to do in that case is to search and find resources to work on it. Then appears a first question: **what is adapted for us in order to practice efficiently?** Both of us know, thanks to the two first years, what are its preferences to learn English. But the problem is based on finding something pertinent. Indeed, many books are listing several categories of TOEIC vocabulary and are proposing to you at the same time several exercises to memorize it. //“How to boost your TOEIC score in 2 months?”//

There are two principal problems with this kind of resource. First is that it is not neces-sarily the way we are able to memorize some-thing, and second is that there are many risks to fail on the sustainable point (experience talking!).

Then appears a first paradox: **How could we learn TOEIC vocabulary sustainably whereas there are no adapted resources for us to work efficiently on it?**

Experience showed us another thing: the human being is not naturally attracted by doing exercises to practice something. We must find motivation, time, pleasure, passion maybe, interest, and many other things which could be bonded whether near or far to the practice act. In contrast, going on Facebook or check our mails are not constraining things, just because it’s very easy and the move is now programed in our cells. We just have to click two or three times without re-alizing anything and we see what we want.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: justify;">Then appears a second paradox: **How to transform practice into an automa-tism?**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: justify;">Those two fundamental questions appeared after wondering how to succeed on our TOEIC test by learning lot of vocabulary leads us to the following issue:

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: justify;">**How to automatize the TOEIC vocabulary practicing from the perspective of a sustainable learning whereas there are no strictly adapted resources for us to work efficiently our vocabulary?**