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What Would You Do to Help Tracy? Tracy, a high-school student who is devoted to MTV: An important mid-term English exam is two weeks away, and she had begun to study while listening to popular music “to relax her.” Tracy has not set any study goals for herself-instead she simply tells herself to do as well as she can on the test. She uses no specific learning strategies for condensing and memorizing important material and does not plan out her study time, so she ends up cramming for a few hours before the test. She has only vague self-evaluative standards and cannot gauge her academic preparation accurately. Tracy attributes her learning difficulties to an inherent lack of language ability and is very defensive about her poor study methods. However, she does not ask for help from others because she is afraid of “looking stupid,” or seek out supplementary materials from the library because she “already has too much to learn.” She finds studying to be anxiety-provoking, has little self-confidence in achieving success, and sees little intrinsic value in acquiring language skills. 同学们的答案要点： 1. Attention-focusing: music (English songs, learn by listening)2. Specific strategies: PO4R (preview, question, read, reflect, recite and review), outline, mind map, analogy, grouping, association, generalization, taking notes, loci method, peg method, acronym 3. Learning chunks 7+2 4. Solve the challenge in adolescence according to Erikson 5. Confidence: praise, proper exercise, positive practice 6. Remove anxiety with the help of behaviorist theory: reward 7. Gardner’s multi-intelligence: musical and linguistic intelligences 8. Metacognition: plan, monitor, evaluate 9. Harmonious social learning environment: praise, cooperative activity, positive reinforcement, scaffolding, organize group work like group discussion, role play, extra-curriculum work 10. Self-esteem: 11. DNA: decision and action 从自主学习角度考虑的参考答案： Tracy is not a qualified self-regulating student. Clearly, T