外教教你如何学通英文

Compositions Not Too Soon

　　Some-not all of the weaknesses students display in writing English are, I believe, aggravated by the educational system, and the pressures it exerts on teachers and students alike. In particular, I believe that students are often required to write English compositions too soon. Writing so as to express your own thoughts, opinions and observations is difficult even in your mother tongue. There are pitfalls and opportunities to error at every turn when you are using your second language! The stage of guided writing, the exercises where you are given the ideas or where you are expected to complete or change or adapt sentences, rather than to invent them, is a very important stage, and should be an extended one. I think it is too often cut short in case students get bored. If the exercises are suitable though, they are difficult enough to be interesting, but not so difficult that most students have no real expectation of success.

英语作文不嫌迟

　　我相信，学生在英文书写方面军的某些缺点，当然不是指所有的缺点，之所以会每况愈下，应归咎于教育制度以及教师与同学所加诸的压力。尤其是教师常常太早要求学生写英文作文，我认为这并不恰当。因为 即使是使用母语来表达自己的想法、意见和观感都不是件容易的事， 而使用第二种语言来写，更免不了随时都有陷阱和犯错的机会！引导写作的这一重要阶段应该拉长，这个阶段的练习，在于提示你一个中心思想，在于要你完成句子，变换句型或修饰句子，而不要你急着自行独创句子。我认为，这个阶段，往往一遇到学生感到厌倦就予于缩短，实在不该。只要练习合乎需要，就该难度适当，足以引起学生的乐趣，而不应太过艰难，使得大多数的学生缺乏成就感。

Reading a Bilingual Magazine

　　Students often say to me that they would like to improve the level of their English—what can they do on their own? Reading a bilingual magazine is obviously one answer! Some of these suggestions are helpful to some students. Read the English language newspapers and concentrate on the pages that really interest you—sports or fashion or the stock market if you like. If your family doesn’t want to watch English language TV, see if you can have a small set in your bedroom.

中英对照杂志有助益

　　学生也常常向我表达他们有心增进英文程度的愿望，但自己却不知从何着手？显然，我最现成的答复是，定期阅读中英对照的杂志！另有一些建议对某些人也很有帮助，象看英文报纸，专选自己真正有兴趣的部分精读：运动、时装或者是股市，只要你喜欢的就看。 假如你的家人不要看英语电视节目，看看你能否自行买一台小型的摆在自己的卧房。

Use English

　　You do need to use English with speakers who are not teachers of English. This isn't easy, since everyone feels constrained speaking English with friends with whom it would be natural to use a shared mother tongue. Joining an English Club is a good idea and joining a club with an international membership (where English is in use at least some of the time) is, for many people, even better. If nothing like this is accessible, you might consider what would be involved in getting something going.

活用英文乐趣多

　　你需要常常和英语教师以外的人士用英语交谈。这当然很不容易，因为与母语相同的人自由交谈时，彼此若用英语交谈总会觉得很不自在。亦可参加英语俱乐部或国际会员的俱乐部（至少有时使用英语沟通），这样对很多人而言更有益。如果没有合适的社团可加入，也不妨考虑任何足以提高英语能力的机会。

　　What I say in answer to questions, is, as you see, what I have learned and I am still learning. This is natural enough, given that the study of a language is a collaborative effort between teachers and students. Success in it, it seems to me, is conditional on avoiding not boredom but discouragement, of setting goals that matter to you and targets that are attainable, of realistic assessment of what has been achieved and of what has still to be done, and of finding opportunities of putting what you have learned to enjoyable use.

以上我针对问题所提的答案，各位想必明白，都是透过学习而得来的经验之谈，而我自己也还要不断的学习。由于语言的学习要靠老师与学生共同努力，相辅相成，所以我这么说是最自然不过的了。我认为要想学能英文，关键并不在于避开单调乏味的学习，而在于避免因挫折而退却；在于配合你的需要，设立实际可达的目标，切实评估你的进展与目标，以及把握机会，享受实地运用所学龄前乐趣。

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