Friday, January 23, 2009

Attitudes and Behaviors about Young Chinese University Students

Today I do a research about the attitudes and behavior of young chinese university students. The age of them is about 17 to 22. They all answered the four aspects of my questions. They have different answers of these questions. When asked what the students would do in the lecture theatre, they said they didn't want to ask questions during the lecture, because they think it is not polite. If they have questions, they will ask at the end of the lecture. When they are listening to the lecture, they will not concentrate on it for one hour. They will concentrate on the lecture for 25 minutes unless they are interested in it. Unless they will not concentrate on it for more than 10 minutes. Surprisingly, nobody will fall asleep in the lecture theatre, even though the contet is very boring.
When asked about seminar and tutorial, the Chinese students said they could discuss questions in the seminar. When they don't understand what does the teacher talk about, they will all ask teacher to explain it again. They consider that you should ask teachers as long as you find something you don't understand. If you often ask questions, you will improve your study quickly. They will use laptop in the seminar. They will find a lot of important information they want immediately. Having a laptop in the seminar is very convient. When they write the assignments, more than half the people we survied will hand in the homework on time. But a few people won't. Sometimes they forget to do the homework, sometimes they forget to bring the homework into class, so they will procrastinate to hand in the homework. Only a few people will write the essay in Chinese and then use translator to translate it to English. Though they know it is wrong, but they think it is convenient and the answer is exactly right. Most people will check the homework when they finish it. At last, I asked some questions about good and bad habits. About eighty percent of people will not turn off the phone in class,but they will turn it into vibration or silent. Nobody will drink or eat in the theatre except water. When they listening to a lecture or a concert, they must respect people who are on stage. Nearly half the people we surveied will use a DV to record other's speech. So they can record everything in the speech and learn more things in the speech. In conclusion, many students have good study styles, just a few people's study styles is not very good. But I think teacher will tell them what is right or wrong, they will be better.