本期嘉宾:华尔街英语中国区域总监Tim Russ、公共关系总监肖堰
访谈主持:孙莹莹
访谈时间:3月28日上午10点--11点半(已结束)
访谈地点:爱词霸英语大讲堂嘉宾聊天室
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Tim_Russ:the key we always says is systematic,many researchers of language said that one of the average number to learn one word, you need to use it 17 times, listening, speaking, reading and writing. so every time the environment is sth different, that is always very interesting, but we forget it mere. so the key is that whatever we learn today we have a chance to practice tomorrow or next week, or next month, and i think that's the key thing as well. so that the language become affective,otherwise, we keep learning new words, but we keep forgeting old words. and it's really becoming a waste as well. so i think that's really what we talk about the systematic environment. and one word we often use is recycle, so that we have a very deep feeling and understanding of the word.
华尔街英语另外一大优势就是强化记忆。我们中国同学的英语,可能存在一些缺陷,昨天学习几个英语单词,三天记得住,但是一个月以后问就可能忘记。华尔街英语针对这样的记忆现象,做特别的培训,来进行反复的训练。比如water,我们让它深深的植根于我们的脑海中。
肖堰:就是系统性,通过循环的使用,听说读写的环节,通过语言学家的研究证明。一个字要使用17遍,就不太容易被忘记了。这种17遍也不是刻意的,通过循环系统的设计,通过听说读写的训练,是很正常的,一般到17遍的循环使用,就不会太忘记了。
主持人:我们下面一个问题很尖锐,他问,你能给我们介绍一下华尔街英语的教学理念吗?对于昂贵的学费而言,效果和收费水平可以达到平衡吗?
Tim_Russ:from the very simple idea, it's language for communication, this is no.1. you know, we don't teach for test, we teach for using english.
and we call it a total multi-method system, so many methods but systematicly put together, listening, speaking, reading and writing. so systematic environments, i think this is very important, and at the personal level. so we talk about in ws, we talk about the 17 major levels of english. actually we have 68, going from the very begining of learning ABC to almost mother language level. so each person is at the level exactlly suit for them, so this is very personal environment. and the learning they do is all connected,is all related to each other. so that what you listening today, you have a chance to practice tomorrow, to use the next time. the found teacher classes are related to the listening, to the homework than you do. and it's all part of one very sentific system for you to improve.but always to make sure that you are not just understand or remember, but you can use this language in a real day to day situation. so how can we control this at every points of the students' study, we will check, we will check and measure can the students do this, canthe students use the major language, have they master and understood the language. if not, it's ok, we ask him to go back again before they go to the next level. so this is really the guarantee of the quality and the results. so would you not allow the students keeping studying, if we feel that they haven't mastered and understood the major language for this level. and that way we can have this step by step learning system and learning process.
是个好问题。华尔街英语课程是非常具有系统性的。首先是分成了不同的模块,比如听说读写各个方面。也是根据学员的不同的英语水平,不同的层级进行划分的。比如说像我们刚才所说的,分成17个级别,还分成了60个单元。不仅是细化的分类,华尔街英语的老师还为我们学员着想,还反复的验证我们学员的学习水平。也许在这个阶段OK了,下一个月还可以做一些测试,来验证学习的效果,所以真的是物有所值吧。