7.4.8 Conclusion of the Mini-lecture
High Achiever
Gao:Skill and will allconstitute an active learner andwill is more important than
the skill. I think the example is the later sentence. Skill is yourability to do
something. Will is amotivation to learn something. She mentioned an example.
And in the example,the person is highly skilled, he may know, he may have read
many books and know how to answer all the questions, but helacked the moti-
vation to learn, because skill and will should be boundhand in hand, so a learner
without will but excellent in skill mayencounter difficulties in college. Toconclude
this class, we said somespecific characteristics ofactive learners and provide you
some and have provided you someuseful strategies tobecome an active learner.
(127 words)
Low Achiever
Wang: At last, this article summarizes the characteristics inskill and will. And skill
involve a lot ofthings and will means themotivation of your learning andskill
would be nothing if they haveno will. And an example about the student. Well, he
or she isknowledgeable, but he hasno will to do it. So, he will, maybe he will
active in course or in discussion. But they don’t want to do homework. Just an
example. So, students like these willmeet difficulties in college. This lecture talks
about active learners and passive learners and the author wish some of these
characteristics and skills of active learning should behelpful to us. (114 words)
Observation
The lecturerfinally summarized the lecture in two key words—“skill and will”.
Skill is the tools to handle learning while will is the desire and motivation to follow
through. Both participants have retold the key information of the conclusion part,
including the importance of will, the detailed example about a student who has
excellent study skills without will and thefinal conclusive remark of the lecture.
The only difference is that Wang didn’t garner the definition of skill while Gao
paraphrased it as“the ability to do things”.
7.4.9 The Two Participants’Responses to the Researcher’s
Questions Concerning the Vague Part
of the Discourse
High Achiever
Researcher: So what does it mean,“quote and unquote”?
Gao: Sentence to sentence.
Researcher: Ok. And what does it mean:“What in the world was that about?”
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