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大学英语5听力 上海外语教育出版社 Lesson 1 Part A ??????? Problems facing foreign students ?? Today Id like to talk about some of the problems that students face when they follow a course of study through the medium of English--if English is not their mother tongue. The problems can be divided into three broad categories: psychological, cultural and linguistic. The first two categories mainly affect those who come to study in Britain from Asia and Africa. I’ll come to comment only briefly on these two categories and then spend most of the time looking at linguistic difficulties which apply to everyone. Some of the common psychological problems really involve fear of unknown: for example, whether ones academic studies will be too difficult. Looking at the cultural problems, we can see that some of them are very practical nature, for example, arranging satisfactory accommodation. Others are less easy to define. The largest category seems to be linguistic. Let’s look at this in some details. Most students, in their own countries, will have little opportunity to practice using English. Where foreign learners first have the opportunity to speak to an English-speaking person then may have a shock “they often have great difficulty in understanding! Ill just mention three of the possible reasons for this. ?? First, it seems to students that English people speak very quickly. Second, they speak with a variety of accents. Third, different styles of speech are used. For all of these reasons students will have difficulty, mainly because they lack everyday practice in listening to English people speaking English. ?? What can a student do then to overcome these difficulties? Obviously, attend English class and, if a language laboratory is available, use it as much as possible. He should also listen to programs in English on the radio and TV. Perhaps most important of all, he should take every opportunity to meet and speak with native English-speaking people. In addition, the student probably ha