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.