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Timestamp
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Class time
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Daily Homework
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05/11/2012
07:18:42
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Speaking
- Listening
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2 - 3
hours
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05/11/2012
17:46:25
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Speaking
- Listening
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1 - 2
hours
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05/11/2012
17:51:43
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Reading
- Writing
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2 - 3
hours
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05/11/2012
18:03:08
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Reading
- Writing
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2 - 3
hours
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05/11/2012
18:27:55
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Reading
- Writing
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0 - 1
hours
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05/11/2012
19:09:32
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Speaking
- Listening
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1 - 2
hours
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05/11/2012
20:58:59
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Reading
- Writing
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2 - 3
hours
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05/11/2012
21:04:06
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Speaking
- Listening
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1 - 2
hours
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05/11/2012
21:29:47
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Reading
- Writing
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1 - 2
hours
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05/11/2012
21:32:52
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Reading
- Writing
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0 - 1
hours
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05/11/2012
21:52:29
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Reading
- Writing
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3+
hours
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05/11/2012
22:28:37
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Reading
- Writing
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2 - 3
hours
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05/11/2012
22:46:36
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Speaking
- Listening
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2 - 3
hours
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05/11/2012
23:27:38
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Reading
- Writing
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1 - 2
hours
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Responses = 14
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Speaking - Listening = 6
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Average = 1.4 - 2.4
hours daily
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Reading - Writing = 8
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Please feel welcome to comment below, which is what I am now going to do.
As you've probably already guessed from the 7:18 AM yesterday timestamp, the first record is mine.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I don't agree with the small majority that we should be spending most of our time in class actually reading and writing, I do like and agree with the average hours for daily homework. About two hours a day sounds right to me, and as I tried to make clear in the survey questions, the term a day means "six or seven days a week"; it definitely does not mean only the four days a week that we have a class.
The two questions on the survey are closely connected. Like everything else - playing golf, cooking French food, dressing fashionably, and the like - reading and writing needs to be practised regularly to improve. We have a short time in class, and if you sat there reading or writing for most of that time, it would certainly make my job much easier: I could sit down and read something else while you were quietly doing your reading and writing. That would also seem to me to be largely a waste of that time, which can far more productively be spent checking, analysing and otherwise working on what we have read and written outside of class.
Don't worry, we will sometimes read in class, and we will even do a couple of written exams in class this term, but for most of the time, we will be discussing, just as our quick look at Quest yesterday showed Hartmann and Blass to greatly value discussion exercises in their reading and writing text.
The daily two hours or so of reading and writing you do outside of class will give us plenty to work with in class as we look for weaknesses to work on and strengths to improve.