Tentative Schedule

• Class 1: Making Goals

Managing your time: Making a plan
• Class 2: Motivation
• Class 3: Learning Principles
• Class 4: Learning in the technological era
Midterm test
• Class 5: Reading books & Learning 4 skills
• Class 6: Learning Strategies
• Class 7: Examinations and Curriculum
• Class 8: Finaltest
A. The different processes in first and second language acquisition.
B. The conflict between English learning and expectation.
C. The impractical orientation of language learning.
A. The different processes in first and second language acquisition.
(1) Exposure time
(2) For surviving / as a tool only
(3) Effort and effortless
(4) First language interferes the acquisition of second
language
a. Interfered by different sound systems. Tones /
stress / ending consonants / intonation
b. Interfered by different language functions.
Auxiliary / transitive V / adj clause / wh-
movement / tense etc.
c. Interfered by different usage.
B. The conflict between English learning and expectation.

(1) Learning English is to pass the exams not to use the language
(2) Learning English is a subject not a language per se (itself).
(3) Daily language is hard to be learned in a classroom setting and
tested.
C. The impractical orientation of language learning.

(1) The starting age mystery.

(2) Language is learned effortless.
(3) Picked up vs. learned process.
(4) The chagrin (boring) of the environment
Tentative Schedule
• Class 1: Making Goals
Managing your time: Making a plan
• Class 2: Motivation
• Class 3: Learning Principles
• Class 4: Learning in the technological era
Midterm test
• Class 5: Reading books & Learning 4 skills
• Class 6: Learning Strategies
• Class 7: Examinations and Curriculum
• Class 8: Finaltest
LEARNING PRINCIPLES
Four specific time frames within study routine:
• B: Before class
• I: In class
• R: Right after
• T: Thereafter
Before class
• Review the previous lesson
• Read before hand
• Underline
• Questions
• Find the reasons to go to class
In class
First class
• Understand how the course is organized
• A course outline/syllabus (delivered at the beginning of the course)
• + a schedule of the lectures
• + the reading assignments
• + the exam schedule
• Improve listening skills
• + How to concentrate
• + Good listening habits
• + Being an active listener
1. Identify the main ideas, connections and
examples
2. Anticipate what the speaker will say next
3. Question and review
4. Relate what is being said and what you have
already known
5. Where to sit?
Right after class
• * Revising your notes
• * Review the content
• * Reflect the content
• * Five steps in note taking
1. Recording
2. Reducing
3. Reciting
4. Reviewing
Thereafter
• Review regularly
• Plan to review
Topic:
Plan to learn Writing subject 1 using the Principle: B-I-R-T