Student 34

…is it beneficial to my listening skill if I keep watching the drama series which is easier to listen to their conversation? Or should I watch the Hollywood films which background music or sound effects are louder in the throes of practising my listening skills?

Student 35

What should I do to improve my pronunciation and listening skills?

Student 36

From my experience, the biggest difficulty of learning English is spelling and listening. Hence, I really want to know how to improve these two parts.

Writing

Ÿ The capacity to fulfill a specific writing task

Student 37

How can I improve my writing styles and know more sentence structures?

Student 38

And for the writing skills, as I have mentioned before, I want to write in a more native and natural way. Do you have any recommendations for me to read?

Student 39

I sincerely want to improve it through learning different sentence structures, collocations, arguments etc. In specific, I want to learn to write in a journalistic style, like those editorials in newspaper. What should I read and pay attention to in order to achieve my aim?

Student 40

My question is, which one would you choose, start a podcast or start a blog?

Student 41

I'd love to grasp more knowledge and techniques about how to write a piece of grammatically correct and meanwhile well-presented article.

Reading

Ÿ Reading comprehension

Student 42

Another one is the cultural difference in language. I know the individual word in a sentence but still I cannot figure out what it means. It is really frustrating.

Ÿ Effectiveness and efficiency of reading (like skim and scanning skills)

Student 43

Sometimes my reading speed is rather slow so I would like to know how I can improve my reading speed.

Student 44

How can I read a bit faster?

Student 45

Should I look up every unfamiliar word in the dictionary when reading?

Ÿ Reading habits cultivation

Student 46

Should I keep on reading more English books? Should l read some novels or some academic essays (must be boring)? What should l do if I have not much time for reading?

Vocabulary

Ÿ Expansion of the quantity of the vocabularies

Student 47

1. I always want to learn more new vocabularies so I try to read more English books, but I feel that it is impossible to remember all new words that I come across when I am reading a book. Should I really check every single vocabulary that I do not know on dictionaries once I come across it?

Student 48

Not only formal and academic English, I’m also interested in learning informal English, for example, idioms and slang. I would like to know by what means can I learn these items?

Student 49

What should I do if I want to know more about the usage of a new word as sometimes we can't learn it from a dictionary?