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      How can we find the suitable learning strategies?

    For these purposes- to find effective learning strategies out, and to make sure what kinds of strategies are useful to us, we did the survey, and analyzed the result of learning strategies. We identified 10 students who study academic courses as participants, then asked them about their learning strategies.

    We made the survey which involves three questions below:

Question 1: what are your top 3 learning strategies?

Question 2: what is the hardest point studying in VIU?

Question 3: What are the ways you use for effective?

    The top 3 learning strategies are note-taking, reviewing note and doing practice. Moreover, the results show that note-taking and note-reviewing are important to the effective learning.

    Respond to Q2, the result shows that every student has dissimilar point. However 30% participants answered that huge amount of reading is hard, other 20 ％ participants answered that distraction, such as, cell phone, chatting, social network (Facebook). Even 30 ％ participants think reading is hard, it is still considered as an important strategy for studying. This means that reading is the effective learning strategy, and also it will help students to understand their lectures and textbooks. Responds to Q3, the survey shows that some effective learning ways. The first way is that to choose comfortable places for their studies (e.g., where can get many materials, being quiet, not being crowded). The second way is avoiding their distraction by using break time effectively and drinking coffee for concentration. The third way is paying attention to time management, and balancing between life and study.

    The different strategies seem that bring choose to us. Especially they provide useful studying tools. In addition, to figure the ways which can be used in daily studying out makes us take advantages.

    To keep studying with learning strategies can improve your study.

Result of the learning strategies survey

Questions:

1. What are your TOP3 learning strategies?

2. What is the hardest part about studying at VIU?

	L.S	L.S	L.S	hardest part
Student 1	go to school	take notes	do homework	doesn’t have many options in choosing classes
Student 2	study every night instead study whole things in a day per day	take notes	re-write notes, practice from notes	distraction
Student 3	learn by doing thing learn from mistakes	learn lectures	learn by watch other people do things learn from others	lots of reading (ex. 15 pages reading )
Student 4	use flash cards	organize notes, take them as a group re-write	do practice on the textbook(after chapter homework) go to online studying	lots of people, library is full
Student 5	reading	take notes	research	too many reading
Student 6	write notes	study notes	answer question from textbook	too many reading limit time
Student 7	do all reading	good notes	don’t miss class	distraction Facebook, cellphone
Student 8	drink coffee if feels tired	re-write things you’ve learned	pay attention in the class class time is important	hard to try to organize all different classes, make them in order, as well as time (ex. five classes)
Student 9	go over vocabulary	take notes	re-write notes before classes	hard to go to class with well-preparation
Student 10	to do all of reading	to ask question	to talk with classmates	balance life and school

 

 

3.What are the ways you use for their effective?

 

•Studying environment is important factor when we do reading task

 

•To find the place we can concentrate on reading (e.x.:quite place, where can get many materials )

 

•To make use the break time effetively while we are reading (e.x.: drinking coffee )

 

•To keep distractions (e.x.: cellphone, ipad,chatting with friends ) away from us

 

•To choose comfortable place (not crowded place )

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