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Other students
Correcting your written
work?
(b) the teacher
sometimes asking you to
correct your own work?
18 =
9.4%
65 =
34%
30 =
15.7%
65 =
34%
Even so, they still appear, in
general, to prefer a rather passive style
of learning involving listening and
taking notes rather than, for example,
correcting their own writing(see Table
24). They also prefer learning by
listening to reading and making notes.
The majority of students do, however,
enjoy role play although over half
still find memorising conversations/
76 =
39.8%
39 =
20.4%
37 =
19.4%
14 =
7.3%
27 =
14.2%
7=
3.7%
1=
0.5%
100%
- 100%
dialogues helpful. Interestingly, not
withstanding their preference for
listening and taking notes, the majority
of students perceive the speaking skill
to be a little more important than the
skills of writing, reading and listening.
It may be that they have some fear of
speaking activities for a range of
reasons. This clearly needs to be
investigated.
Table 24
Students’ Preferences for Learning Method
Variables
Percent (quite like or
like very much)
learning by reading 58.1%
learning by repeating what students hear 52.3%
learning by listening 51.9%
reading and making notes as a learning 49.7%
method.
problem solving tasks as a learning method 46.6%
listening and taking notes as a learning method 45.6%
getting information for yourselves. 44.5%
memorising 34.6%
copying from the board 34.0%
According to the students, factors
that hinder the learning of a foreign
language are student-related,
classroom-related and resource-related.
Students also feel that there are
inadequate native speaker teachers and
insufficient consultation hours. Nor
does it help that teaching methods are