Study Activities in University
In order to help college and university students in the process of learning, four key study activities have been designed and used to encourage them to make knowledge their own.
1. Essay writing: central focus of university work esp. in the humanities, e.g 【1】
benefits:l) Helping to select interesting content in books and to express understanding. 2) Enabling teachers to know progress and to offer【2】. 3) miliarizing students with exam forms.
2. Seminars and classroom discussion: another form to internalize knowledge in specialized contexts.
benefits: l)【3】enables you to know the effectivess of and others’’ response to your speechimmediately. 2) Within the same period of time, more topics can be dealt with thanin 【4】. 3) The use of a broader range of knowledge is encouraged.
3. Individual tutorials:a substitute for group discussion.
format: from teacher【5】to flexible conversation, benefit: encouraging ideas and interaction.
4. Lectures: a most【6】used study activity.
disadvantages:(1) Less【7】than discussions or tutorials. 2) More demanding than notetaking.
advantages: 1) Providing a general 【8】 of a subject under discussion. 2) Offering more easily understood versions of a theory. 3) Updating students on【9】developments. 4) Allowing students to follow different【10】