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ect matter bee clear to them. Even simply paying attention is very difficult。 people can listen at a rate of four hundred to six hundred words a minute, while the most impassioned professor talks at scarcely a third of that speed. This time lag between speech and prehension leads to daydreaming. Many students believe years of watching television have sabotaged their attention span, out their real problem is that listening attentively is much harder than they think.聽課存在的一個問題是:會聽是件很難的事。閱讀課本中的相同內容是更有效的學習方法,因為學生可以根據(jù)其需要慢慢閱讀直到他們理解這些內容,甚至僅僅做到專心聽課都很難。人聽的速度可以達到每分鐘400600個詞,而最富有激情的教授說話的速度也很難達到這個速度的1/3。講課和理解之間的時間差異導致開小差。很多學生認為多年來看電視已經(jīng)削弱了他們保持注意力的能力。但是他們真正的問題是專心聽課比他們認為的要難得多。Worse still, attending lectures is passive learning, at least for inexperienced listeners. Active learning, in which students write essays or perform experiments and them have their work evaluated by an instructor, is far more beneficial for those who have not yet fully learned how to learn. While it’s true that techniques of active listening, such as trying to anticipate the speaker’s next point or taking notes selectively, can enhance the value of a lecture, few students possess such skills at the beginning of their college careers. More monly, students try to write everything down and even bring tape recorders to class in a clumsy effort to capture every word.更糟的是,聽課是被動學習,至少對沒有經(jīng)驗的聽眾如此。主動學習時學生些文章或做實驗,然后由教師評價他們的作業(yè),因此主動學習對那些還沒有完全學會如何學習的學生來說益處要大得多。的確,積極聽講的技巧,如設法預測說話人的下一個要點或有選擇的記筆記,能夠提高聽課的價值,但是很少有學生在大學學習的開始階段就已經(jīng)掌握了這些技巧。更為常見的是學生試圖寫下所有的內容,甚至還帶著錄音機去聽課,以這種笨拙的方式來記錄每個詞。Students need to question their professors and to have their ideas taken seriously. Only then will they develop the analytical skills required to think intelligently and creatively. Most students learn best by engaging in frequent and even heated debate, not by scribbling down a professor’s often unsatisfactory summary of plicated issues. They need small discussion classes that demand the mon labors of teacher and students rather than classes in which one person, however learned, propounds his or her own ideas. 學生需