Tham khảo tài liệu 'learning by doing 8', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | GETTING INVOLVED IN LEARNING notes or make drawings in your notebook or speak into your tape recorder. Record what was important or useful to you as well as what was confusing. Copy the sentence or phrase you d like to remember noting the page it s on. If You Are Listening If it s an audiotape listen to it once just to get started. Then write in your notebook what interested you most about what you heard. Return to that part of the tape and listen to it again. If you re listening to a lecture or speech you don t have the opportunity to hear the whole thing once before you start. In that case you have to try to get interested before the talk begins. Does the lecture have a title for instance Perhaps something in that title if you think about it will remind you of something you know. Are there any audio-visual aids in the room Have you been given a handout Any of these things can help you find out what s interesting to you about the talk before it begins. If the speaker hasn t given you any aids focus on the speaker him- or herself. Does this look like a person you would trust to give you good information or advice Does he or she look like someone you know Even focusing on the speaker s appearance may help you become interested in what the speaker has to say. Acting Out What if you re studying something and despite your best efforts you don t find anything of particular interest in it Sometimes you just can t find anything that you can connect with. In that case pretend you re someone else who can relate to the material and has an interest in it You can become interested in a subject when you involve yourself in it even when you re just role-playing. See Chapter 5 Learning by Doing for more on role-playing and other ways to be an active learner. Pretend you re the instructor decide what will be the focus of the next class. Let that direct your studying. 71 HOW TO STUDY Act Take on somebody else s interests. If you re studying management for example assume the role of
