The Problems of Taking English Courses Through English
When students take courses through the medium of English, they have to face psychological, cultural and linguistic problems.
Psychological problems:
a. the fear of the (1) ______: the fear of the difficulty of academic (1) ______
learning and the fear of (2) ______ in examinations. (2) ______
b. Possible (3) ______ because of separation from his family. (3) ______
Cultural problems:
1. arranging satisfactory (4) ______. (4) ______
2. getting used to British life.
3. settling into a strange environment and a new academic (5) ______. (5) ______
4. learning a new set of social (6) ______. (6) ______
5. expressing appropriate (7) ______. (7) ______
6. understanding a different kind of humor.
7. learning how to make friends.
Linguistic problems:
--Students of non-English speaking countries have little (8) ______ (8) ______
opportunity to practise using English.
--Students of non-English speaking countries have great difficulty in
understanding what a native speaker of English says. The reasons are:
a. English people speak very quickly.
b. Everyday spoken English is different from (9) ______ English (9) ______
students have learnt.
c. Students do not practise listening to English people.
How to overcome these linguistic difficulties
--Attending English classes.
--Using a language (10) ______ as much as possible. (10) ______
--Listening to programs in English on the radio and TV.
--Taking every opportunity to communicate with native English-speaking people.