Questionnaire on English learning strategies

Questionnaire on English learning strategies and study skills and analysisFor many chinese , English is a second language which make many people whose native language is chinese to learn English very difficult ,in order to have a better future ,we must learn it .With an intention to provide a better method to English learners, giveing us a further understanding to study weakness .so I have made a questionnaire sunvey ,as I can see that most college students have many common problems of English learning ,first ,65 percent of the students doesn’t have a good purpose for choose English as their major, they choose it just for getting a good job in the future and finishing school, so their passion into the English study will less than those who choose Enlish as their major for personal interest .second , because of the four fifths of college students are not good at listening and speaking .they doesn’t always read english loudy and recite the texts they have learned .Besides, they just use a short time practise a dialogue or do role plays in english with their partners, and when they have a chance to talk with foreigners in english , they always worried about something , so they are not good at speaking. Half of them also not good at learnin . From the questionnaire survey , i found some reasons that they doesn’t spent much time on listening various kinds of listening materials and watching english TV programs and orginal movies . Third, over half of them doesn’t have good habits of english studying ,such as they are not often preview new lessons and veview what they have learned .what’s more ,they seldom make a plan for their English study and communicate with their fellow students and teachers about learning experience , meanwhile, they are not always find out their weak points of English learning by evaluation and try to improve. Forth, 70 percent of them think reading is their strong point ,but for reading ,they also have some problems, most of them may choose read extensively after class, while still have some college students choose read extensively after class on it depends. 53 percent of college students have a low reading speed . because of them spend much time on using reference books such as dictionary and internet to search information when they are reading. Generally speaking , the majority of college students are good at reading than listening. Speaking and writing. First, 62 percent of the students know just a little of culture and historical , background knowledge of english –speaking countries ,this phenomenon as a result of lacking a wide reading ,which include some english newspapers, stories and maginizes , as well as lacking distinquish and compare the linguistic and cultural differences between chinese and english . sixth, different students have different factors hinders their english learning. 35 percent of students hold a pinion of unable to understand the lectures . 25 percent of students think the factor is unable to use grammar and sentence structure ,thich because of the students spent little on consolidating grammatical knowledge by doing exercise. At last ,for english learning methods are very important , the great majority of students take notes in class ,such can reinforce their memories on learning in class ,and even practice their listening .Different people have different ways of learning ,55 percent of the students learn best by listening, they are called hearing learners ,and 45 percent students learn best by reading or looking at pictures ,they are called visual learners .All in all ,only it match your study style very well ,that’s ok!From the questionnaire survey , I learned that enlish learning is a long process ,we should make a period plan for our english study, and try our best to complete it. The diffcult of english study is not only for other students, but also the same for me. Even though ,i like studying english, but the pressure of my english disadvantages made me can’t breath. I am not feel well ,i am frustrated ,i am discouraged. But i have a dream for my future, it should not be discarded lightly.My english is very poor, especially listening , speaking, reading and vocabulary.For listening, i feel troubled and distressed, when i listen to verious kinds of listening materials and watch english TV programs and orginal movies, always can’t hear clearly and understand smoothly. I know this is one of my disadvatages, so improve my listening ability is very important , after this class , i think i should arrange several periods of time for listening in one day, such as , listen to VOA news every morning for 15 minutes ,listen to step by step in the afternoon for 25 minutes .practise dictation for 25 minutes in the evening , listen to english songs before i go to bed for 15 minutes. Above all is my english listening time schedule. Predict before and while listening, choose appropriate listening materials which should imitate real-life situations of native speakers. When i need help in listening comprehension ,i should get help form different sources including background knowledge,visual and aural clues,besides, stress and intonation. Wanting improve listening ability ,I must keep listening both intensively and extensively ,so that I can get the exact pronunciation and intonation, meanwhile,it can provides me with chances to cover more material at a time and thus get more information. Except that , I should listen to different accents and do various activities which include speaking, reading , writing activities. For listening and speaking, they are inseparable. For reading ,especially reading aloud is beneficial to listening because i can compare my pronunciation with the standard one.If i follow these methods, my listeing ability will have a great progress.Speaking, i want to improve most . for me, speaking can kill me ,i am very shy and reluctant to speak a little ,because i am afraid of making mistakes and be laughed at .so my speaking is very poor. I want to it most. How to improve it ? i think i should speak english bravely, don’t care anything, as a second language learner who are justified to make mistakes, we can learn and make progress from mistakes .i don’t have many chance to speak english ,create them. Conversation is one of the common forms, practicing english by conversation, especially with native speakers of english, is very helpful. When i start a conversation, should naturally don’t care too much about “face”.when i how to express myself ,should turn to partner for help. Also use body language to show atlitude and emotion .It is proved that 70 percent of the communication is achieved by something other than lanuage. At last, in order to improve speaking ability , should practice on different topics, the more topics touch upon ,the more successfully and flexibly i can cope with different situations in real life communication. Above all, i should be confident of meself and keep practicing.Reading is a importat part in english study, but i’m not good at it , so i urge improving reading efficiency, reading speed and reanding comprehesion .for saving time, understanding implied meaning , getting information more quickly. For how to improve reading speed. first, i should set aside some time everyday ,but reading materials should be something which can keep my interest and should not be too diffcult. Second, avoiding using dictionary and pacing myself. For improving reading comprehension , predicting is a very important method. Guessing vocabulary is another method which can help us understand the meanings of unfamiliar words. At last, learning to infer and identifying the author’s attitude, which help us understand the text ,and should consciously check my comprehension now and then by asking questions, summarizing and recalling. But to be an efficient reader ,we should persist in reading regularly and extensively and form good reading habits.V ocabulary learning is generally considered to be the most diffcult component of english language learning ,enlish vocabulary is huge, most english words have more than one meaning and each has a varity of usages, and so on. Because vocabulary learning is diffcult, students are alwaysstuck in the diffcult position ,so do i. V ocabulary and reading, speaking, listening are inseparable, so vocabulary must be studied well. First , we should know word structure, which can help us master different kinds of words. Memorizing new forms are not too diffcult. What is diffcult is to learn what the form is used for-meaning. Many words have so many meanings, hardly for all the meaning of them. If we know well the denotation,and connotation of a word. We will learn vocabulary more well. I think the best way is building a personal dictionary, and always cary the note book and review the words whenever we have a little time. If we finished these methods we should become more conscious vocabulary learners, and remember more and more words.According to the questionnaire survey, I learned that the majority of students have a common sense that study English well is very difficult, so do I. But I love studying english ,love the culture of English, love the English songs, and so on. In order to have better comprehension, so I will try my best to learn English !。