We did a survey about learning strategies in VIU academic students. Here is a list of the questions:
1. Give 3 learning strategies in your studying.2. What is the hardest part in studying at VIU?
3. How many hours do you study at home?
We surveyed ten students include international students and domestic students because they may have different strategies and hardest part.
We list top10 about learning strategies. ①Take a good notes. This strategy is useful to prepare quiz and test. ②Review your notes and academic textbooks because your memory can’t be clear after 24 hours. It can aid you to refresh your memory effective. ③Listen to English music and see English movies and read English books, newspaper, textbooks and magazines. It helps you learn formal and informal language and also can remember many vocabularies. ④Use flash card to memorize vocabularies. ⑤Use paper dictionary not electronic dictionary or you will find a wrong meaning. ⑥Buy a grammar book and often review it. ⑦Read articles loudly. It can help you to correct your pronunciation. ⑧Chat with local people. It is a best way to improve your English spoken. ⑨Ask questions when you can’t understand. Both your teachers and classmates can help you. ⑩Write everyday and ask English speaker to correct it.
About the hardest part
Speaking, listening, writing essay and memorizing vocabulary are very difficult to international students. A student said when he works in group; other students speak fast which is not like in ESL class. So it is difficult to understand. And for local students the hardest parts are writing essay and paper. As a result, in order to deal with these problems and puzzles, they need to practice more.
About the last question, we want to know how many hours should students study at home. Sometime students study for a long time but they get nothing. They spend much time in playing online game. It is not only useless but also wastes your time. Here is the result of the third question:
This pie chart illustrates that the majority of students (about 40%) like to spend 0 to 2 hours in studying at home. But they usually go to the library. When they return home, students do not want to spend too much time in studying. Some students (50%) study 2 to 4 hours at home. These students not only study in the library but also spend time at home. A few students (10%) study more than 4 hours at home. These students are probable new academic students. They are not familiar a new environment and teaching method. They need to spend more time to study at home. In brief, different students have different habit in studying. We should find a better way which is fit us.
You did a good job with this survey and report. You used English well and summarized the data clearly. My only complaints are that the presentation of data in the third paragraph should be in a table, not a paragraph. I also would like to know exactly how many students were international and how many were domestic. Your graph is good, but too small (unless the reader enlarges it). 8/10.
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