【英语趣味课堂】不同种类的学习者-Various Types of Learners

Todd: So, Julia, we're both teachers.

Julia: That's right.

 

Todd: And are you familier with the different learner types?

 

Julia: A little bit, yes, I encounter different kinds of learners in my classrooms.

 

Todd: OK, so for example, what kind of learner are you?

 

Julia: I think possibly more than one, maybe overlap¹ on a couple, but primarily a visual learner so I'd have to take it in through my eyes usually like with a picture. I certainly have to see a word if I'm learning a language. I have to see it written down.

 

Todd: So you need a phonetic² script? You need something?

 

Julia: I need something visual.

 

Todd: Yeah for it to stick in your head?

 

Julia: For it to stay in my mind, it has to have a visual. I can't just hear it for example. I can't just hear a word and remember it. I have to have some sort of visual to connect it to.

 

Todd: OK, so you're a visual learner, anything else?

 

Julia: I think it's called a visual learner. I don't know the technical term for it but an emotional learner if a...

 

Todd: Really?

 

Julia: Yeah. If a piece of information or the thing that I'm learning is attached to an emotional experience, I store it very definitively³. I can remember it. I can recall it. If it's just a neutral, say a sentence, I can't remember it. It has to have a back story. It has to have an emotional connection somehow.

 

Todd: Right. It has to have some connection?

 

Julia: Yes, yeah. Usually a personal story especially humor. If there's a joke involved, if it made me laugh at the time of learning it. I'm a laughter learner, I don't know if that's a real one but definitely an emotional response makes it much more easy for me to learn something.

 

重点词汇：

 

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encounter

 

 

I encounter different kinds of learners in my classrooms.

 

When you 'encounter' something or someone, you come into contact with it. Notice the following:

 

You never know what kind of people you are going to encounter on trips abroad.

Do you get nervous about encountering wild animals in the jungle?

primarily

 

I'm primarily a visual learner.

 

'Primarily' can be replaced by 'mainly' or 'essentially⁴.' Julia is saying that she usually learns best with visual cues. Notice the following:

 

He wears primarily black clothes.

Do you speak primarily English at home?

visual learner

 

 

I'm primarily a visual learner.

 

A 'visual learner' is a person who learns best by seeing something, rather that just hearing it. Notice the following:

 

Can you write that word down for me? I'm more of a visual learner.

Most of the class is taught for visual learners, so that's why it's hard for me.

phonetic script

 

 

So you need a phonetic script?

 

When something is written in 'phonetic script,' it is written with special symbols that show how it spoken. Notice the following:

 

The school encourages teachers to use phonetic script in the classroom.

Do you understand how to read phonetic script?

recall

 

 

If something that I'm learning is attached to an emotional experience, I store it very definitely.

 

When you 'recall' something, you remember it.Notice the following:

 

With some memory problems, people have difficult recalling events that happened a few minutes ago.

I can't recall her husband's name right now.

1 overlap   

v.重叠，与…交叠；n.重叠

参考例句：

• The overlap between the jacket and the trousers is not good.夹克和裤子重叠的部分不好看。
• Tiles overlap each other.屋瓦相互叠盖。

2 phonetic   

adj.语言的，语言上的，表示语音的

参考例句：

• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
• English phonetic teaching is an important teaching step in elementary stages.语音教学是英语基础阶段重要的教学环节。

3 definitively   

adv.决定性地，最后地

参考例句：

• None of the three super-states could be definitively conquered even by the other two in combination. 三个超级国家中的任何一国都不可能被任何两国的联盟所绝对打败。 来自英汉文学
• Therefore, nothing can ever be definitively proved with a photograph. 因此，没有什么可以明确了一张照片。 来自互联网

4 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。