Many students find the experience of attending university lectures to be a confusing and frustrating experience. The lecturer speaks for one or two hours, perhaps --1-- the talk with slides, writing up importanton the blackboard, --2-- reading material and giving out --3--.The new student sees the other students continuously writing on notebooks and --4-- what to write. Very often the student leaves the lecture --5-- notes which do not catch the main points and --6-- become hard even for the --7-- to understand.
Most institutions provide courses which --8-- new students to develop the skills they need to be --9-- listeners and note--takers. --10-- these are unavailable, there are many useful study--skills guides which --11-- learners to practice these skills --12--. In all cases it is important to --13-- the problem --14-- actually starting your studies.
It is important to --15-- that most students have difficulty in acquiring the language skills --16-- in college study. One way of --17-- these difficulties is to attend the language and study--skills classes which most institutions provide throughout the --18-- year. Another basic --19-- is to find a study partner --20-- it is possible to identify difficulties, exchange ideas and provide support. |
