Comments on: SOUND LABS

By: kitty ZSTU 2

kitty ZSTU 2 — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:14:39 +0000

This article is very useful to me .I agree you in some degree.In China,the sound lab is inefficient for most students who have used it .Beacuse students can not pay attention to the vedio which is playing.They alway think other things when they are listening .And teachers open one eye and close the other eye to them .Sometime they do not connect with students at all.So it is a waste of time and technology in China.But some stucents have their skills to listen to the vedio.They can pay attention to the listening material.These students will repeat the listening material and practice in other situations after class .Thus, to some students ,the sound lab is useful.

By: Allen Zstu Class2

Allen Zstu Class2 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:51:11 +0000

It is generally known that listening,speaking,reading and writing are the four basis skills of for us to learn English,we can learn reading and writing well alone,but it’s difficult to learn listening and speaking by ourselves,because we have no a English envionment around us ,but I think we have too many ways to change this situation,we can make friends with international student,we can talk with them in English,in return we teach them Chinese culture.Win-win in the process.We can see more original English movies and so on.

By: Elaine Zstu2

Elaine Zstu2 — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:34:07 +0000

If we want accurate and complete grasp of the English other people say,we must learn to listen,carefully listening to what others are saying.Even if,in the beginning,we will have great trouble in listening and understanding,we are still need to make an effort to contiune learning,learning how to pronounce,how to say the sentence and understand their idiom use.If we focus our attentionand say it out loudly,we can do it better.

By: Elaine Zstu2

Elaine Zstu2 — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:17:47 +0000

The sound lab of Chinese universities have invested heavily to teach English listening.These behaviors should be found in the process of Western countries’s language learning.Chinese students in English just stay in a lower level,that is what we usually call “Chinglish”.Even now.Many people can freely communicate with foreigners through English,but that does not mean that the Chinese people in English have reached the international standard.Now,English is the world’s largest language.Therefore,as our generation,we need to seize this opportunity.AS university graduates,we should make our own ability to adapt to the development of the society and the times.

By: Ann ZSTU2

Ann ZSTU2 — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:38:56 +0000

I am completely agree with your opinion that you should listen for main ideas, ask questions, give feedback and flexible utilize the sound labs. Chinese students memorize the set phrase so that they can’t promote the english capacity. You give us appropriate method how to exploit the sound labs.

By: kobe zstu 6

kobe zstu 6 — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:16:25 +0000

The skills of listening,speaking,reading,writing are the basis for us to learn a foreign language,we can learn reading and writing well alone,however,it’s difficult to learn listening and speaking by yourself,because we have no natural situation,we can’t speak and listen face to face.It’s necessary for us to speak English with foreigners not to listen to the text in sound labs .

By: Helen zstu2

Helen zstu2 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:11:20 +0000

I can not agree with that idea anymore that you can not practise your listening and speaking very well without chating or communication with each other.How to express that ,just when you are talking and listening to others’ words in the reality ,it is little time left for you to think about it ,just open your mouth to say,say what you want after you can understand your friends’ meaning.At the same time,you should make feedback, feedback which is pointed out in the passage will make your friends be happy to continue the topic. But in the sound lab ,after we finished the listening ,we have times to think about the quetions in the book.Maybe it is useful for the beginning of learing english,we have to change our ideal about that.The most important thing of learning a foreign language is using it to communicate,let others to understand your opinions.So it is really unusable to spend so much money on sound labs.Some will be fine ,not too much.We can not improve english just by buying book .I think this reform should be in the same situation.

By: KEVIN ZSTU3

KEVIN ZSTU3 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:29:23 +0000

To my omn view,universities are just try their best to creat a enviroment for us,as they know we students are so shy to speak English with each other,because they do not they are good at it!

By: JACK ZSTU6

JACK ZSTU6 — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:58:29 +0000

I don’t know when and where the sound labs were used in China English education in the first time,in my opinion,it could be a successful experience came from the foreign country,maybe the former Soviet Union.So the sound labs may be useful,I guess.

By: Bill zstu 6

Bill zstu 6 — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 01:29:14 +0000

In China, many build sound labs just to show people, experts that they have devices to learn listening skills ,but few NOTICE whether it will really works, make our students improve English listening skill, that a very common phenomenon in China of many aspects, not just in school,also in enterprises,factory, etc, just show other we have labs, but seldom really improve the skill of English.