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 |
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 |
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. |
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? |
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 |
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? |