节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-04-28
难易度:Medium
关键字:oriented, discipline, outcome, continuous
Hi, friends.
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
My name is Steve.
Did you know everyone has a different learning style?
For example, some of you are visual learners.
You need to see something to understand it.
Others are tactile learners.
For you, understanding comes easiest through touching and holding something in
your hands.
Well, today we approach learning through two very different styles of homework,
long project or daily practice.
Which suits your learning style best?
Let's open our magazines to page 51 and begin reading.
(Music).
What Kind of Homework is Best?
How do you think homework is training us for the career-oriented world?
Do you think that one method is better than the other?
I think there may be benefits to both styles of homework assignments.
In a job, you have things you have to get done every day.
So the discipline of daily homework helps you get in that habit.
And if you hear back from your teacher right away about the outcome of your
assignment, you can learn from your mistakes.
Hello. My name is Brandon.
And we're back here today talking about homework.
That's right.
We're talking about the problems with homework.
Do we think that one kind of project is better than another kind?
Do you like daily assignments or projects better?
Well, I personally like daily assignments because I can hand them in.
How about you, Kaylah?
I personally like projects because I like being able to develop something at my
own pace.
Now I tend to side more with Ben.
And Brandon... likes to side with Jane.
So we two are also having a discussion.
That's right.
And you can think about it for yourself.
And do you like projects, or do you like daily assignments?
Maybe you kind of like parts of both of those.
But this is a good question to ask yourself whether you are at school or you are
working in an office or somewhere else.
That's right.
Now something that the students haven't brought up, but I'm glad they are now,
is how homework is going to affect the future.
Ben starts our conversation today with: How do you think homework is training us
for the career-oriented world?
Now I think that, as students, often we don't think of this as a problem, as one
of the situations we should be looking at.
But as we've been discussing, Brandon, we see that assignments and projects
don't stop at school.
So are your assignments at school really preparing you for the career-oriented
world?
This word "oriented" here is a suffix.
It means showing the direction in which something is aimed.
That's right.
It... "oriented," you could also say aimed or focused on.
So what is it focusing on?
Here we see that our world is focusing more on your career.
That's where it's aiming.
It's where it's pointing you towards.
Well, is your homework helping you be prepared for that?
Do you think that one method is better than the other?
Well, Jane thinks there may be benefits to both styles of homework assignments.
And she says: In a job, you have things you have to get done every day.
That's right.
So she's talking about the benefits of both.
Now the benefits are the good things that come out of it.
So she's saying that both styles of homework have good things that you can learn
for a career-oriented workplace.
And she talks about the importance of discipline.
"Discipline" means you are trained in a certain way.
We can have self-discipline.
We have an assignment to do, so we make ourselves do it.
We don't wait until it's too late.
And so she says discipline is important.
And you need the discipline of daily homework.
This helps you to get in that habit.
That's right.
And she is referring to this as it works in the workplace as well.
In your career, you will have daily tasks that you need to do.
One that we all do is check our e-mails.
That's something we have to do every single day.
So having homework every single day as a student helps you develop the
discipline to, later in life, be able to do these daily tasks on time.
And Ben says: If you hear back from your teacher right away about the outcome of
your assignment, you can learn from your mistakes.
Kaylah, we talked about this earlier, the importance of feedback.
And then we have the word "outcome" here.
The outcome of your assignment, the final results.
You want to get some feedback about everything before you turn in your final
project, right?
That's right.
And we talked about that as both at daily assignment you get feedback about the
outcome every single day, but it also works for long projects.
If you... even if you don't have to turn something in, take the time to talk to
your teacher or to your boss,
whoever is in charge, you can hear feedback before the final outcome.
That way, your... the final outcome, the final say, the final result you know
will be correct.
And so a theme I think we have in this article is that it's important to... to
ask questions, to ask your teacher:
Am I doing OK on this project?
Can you give me some tips on some areas I can improve in?
That way the final outcome will be good.
The final result will be really good.
Well, I like this ending part of the sentence.
It says you can learn from your mistakes.
Now that goes beyond just our assignments, beyond projects and work at school.
This goes into all of life.
Learning from your mistakes is important.
You know, Brandon, it's not fun making mistakes.
It's awkward, it's uncomfortable when you do something wrong.
But if you take the time to learn from it, you're in... that's a good place to
be.
It's very important.
And some people are afraid of making mistakes, so they won't even try.
They will not even try something new.
They're afraid of failure.
But I want to encourage you: Don't be afraid of failure.
You can... you can learn from your mistakes.
And that will help you improve in whatever you are doing.
Right now it's time for us to watch an interview.
In my opinion, I prefer the long projects.
Take myself, for example.
I take the course of sociolinguistics this semester.
My classmates and I needed to make a group of four and design a questionnaire.
After we finished the questionnaire, we had to... our professor asked us to
modify it.
Then the most... the most time-consuming things were that we had to find our
interviewees, and also, we had to write a report based on the outcome.
Over all, it took us for more than three weeks to finish this project.
Through this long project, I... I think I have made a lot of progress in
organizing things.
Personally, I... I think I would like to challenge the long projects.
Daily practice or long projects?
Which is better?
I think the answer should be based on different levels of students.
For example, when doing daily practice homework,
students at lower level could have a chance to improve their performance by
getting teacher's feedback and correcting the mistakes they have made.
So I think this kind of homework is suitable for some basic courses like grammar
or writing.
As to higher level students, maybe doing long projects is useful for them to
learn some skills that's important in their future workplace.
For example, hmm, information collecting, uh... data analyzing, and the most
important, self-discipline.
That's all myopinion. Thank you.