I feel that students these days exhibit a severe weakness in aural skills. It seems like the years they have spent in primary school, with English as a teaching medium, has not helped them at all. For some reason or another, you'll find that they need you to:
1. repeat things over and over again, as if they have just arrived from some village imprisonment for years.
yes, they don't seem to enjoy information being disseminated by the masses. They NEED you to transmit the verbal information on a one-to-one basis.
2. show them visually what you mean.
"A picture tells a thousand words". Visual cues are excellent for content pedagogy, but when it comes instructions to deal with time and space, we are in short supply of understanding and imagination here.
Of course, the worse part to it is that they have completely mastered the art of talking at about 70 dB consantly and consistently for the whole day, which forces me to really go above them with the typical "Aslan" roar, or the Sadako Red Eye Death stare. I wonder if they speak like that at home. Hmmm... Actually my friends could easily imagine what it's like.
Imagine 5 to 7 of me speaking to you simultaneously or sequentially.
I foretell that the size of the human ear is be significantly reduced in the next 500 years, since the young ain't using them, there's no need for the current ones.
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