Issue42 学习类(学习是solitary的，还是需要collaboration)
42. Because learning is not a solitary activity but one that requires collaboration among people, students of all ages will benefit academically if they work frequently in groups."The speaker asserts that students of all ages should work together more frequently in order to help to boost their academic performance because learning is not a solitary activity but need collaboration. While I totally agree that learning requires cooperation, I doubt the effects of the activities involving students of all ages, since age may cause gaps among the students. In my observation, learning sometimes is more of an individual work, especially in higher level that learning requires more quiet meditation.
It is no doubt that we can hardly learn only by reading books alone. An old proverb says “All study and no play makes Jack a dull boy” which manifests absolute individual study does not lead to whole person development. We can learn much from collaboration with others which cannot be attained by studying alone. In a group, different students play distinct roles, some may be leaders, some coordinators and some co-workers. When being these roles, students may learn how to cooperate, express their own opinions, point out others errors, all of which is part of the content of studying. Hereby collaboration is definitely helpful to students’ learning.
However, as I mentioned above, learning, to some extent, is more of a solitary work especially for those high grade students. The higher grade, the more contemplation is needed. It is hard to imagine what a conversation between a pupil and a sophomore student of philosophy about metaphysics can contribute to the sophomore’s deeper understanding of the topic. While collaboration with student of different age can increase the ability of student’s social ability, thinking is more needed when specific knowledge is required to solve profound problems.
Diverse age can also cause bad effects in a group. In the growing stage, even three years can form tremendous difference, consequently school arranges students of the same age into same grade in order to let students have better communication with classmates. Hence, a working group is better formed among the students of same grade than of all ages for the purpose of enhancing academic skills, because they have more in common and they can mutually stimulate the motivation of studying and working, especially for primary and middle school students whose burgeon are rather rapid, mentally and physically.
All in all, collaboration is highly salutary for learning and groups of proper formation may provide more opportunities for students to cooperate with others and change opinions. But in some condition that particular knowledge is required as the founding of communication, solitary meditation becomes more essential for the improvement of understanding than collaboration with students of different ages who can not be assured to master the knowledge. After all, individual thinking and group activities are both indispensable measures of learning. "I doubt the effects of the activities involving students of all ages, since age may cause gaps among the students"...
我想这个题目是说因为什么什么所以各个年龄段的学生will benefit academically if they work frequently in groups...每个年龄段都会有他们的groups.....而不是说a pupil and a sophomore student 会在一个group里面....这个应该不是这个题目的前提,我想.
譬如可以有保留的同意此观点...说什么经常合作,在group里面讨论相互帮助会对学生有益处...然后写几段...最后再说,也不能完全否定独立学习思考的好处,或者说有时候也是很需要独立思考学习或者独立的学习也会给学生带来好处...之类的. 不知道理解是否正确.
另外
"An old proverb says “All study and no play makes Jack a dull boy” which manifests absolute individual study does not lead to whole person development." 中,which前应该有个逗号,而且whole person development不太明白...
"We can learn much from collaboration with others which cannot be attained by studying alone." 中,which前也应该有逗号吧....不加好像不对.
还有些地方....也觉得有些怪读起来...and some grammar mistakes ba..
个人观点!
讨论
譬如"When being these roles, students may learn how to cooperate, express their own opinions, point out others errors, all of which is part of the content of studying."
cooperate,express...和 point out...是并列吧...那么需要加and 吗? 而且,是all of which is 还是
all of which are...?
"It is hard to imagine what a conversation between a pupil and a sophomore student of philosophy about metaphysics can contribute to the sophomore’s deeper understanding of the topic." 读起来很奇怪... 分析不清楚...
还有像different ages...要加s吧...
"the ability of student’s social ability" 中,student 是单数可数名词...不能单独存在吧...
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个人观点. 是说在不同的年龄组学生在一起工作学习,还是说年龄不同的人在一个组里呢?我感觉好象是后者,不过,conversation的例子自己也觉得是有点出入,毕竟和work together还是有点出入的.语言的问题还是要好好解决的说呀,谢谢你了!
discussion
I fully agree with what GGump said above..there is some misunderstand in your article, which led the essay to some of confusion. You'd better focuse in whether it is benefical to studay alone or collaboratively not the one you metioned "collaboration with student of different age". Therefore, you can make your opinion much clearer if you developed you idea by comparing the two methods of study.ps. "especially for primary and middle school students whose burgeon are rather rapid, mentally and physically"-is this sentence a little hard to understand? Rethink about it..
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