| [ studyingabroad ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): guest (tiger) 날 짜 (Date): 1994년10월15일(토) 14시00분30초 KST 제 목(Title): more on the TSE 2 Now, let me explain why I said the test measures how bad your English can be.It is simply because the situation your sppeak English in is totally unnatural and unrreal. In reeal situations, we talk to people face to face except when we use a telephone. This means that we get responses from the hearer verbally as well as gersturally. For example, we get "네, 그랬군요", or eyeccontact. In addition, we talk to each other to communicate, which means we feel it's necessary to talk about something. Now, you don't have any of these things when you take the TSE. Your are talking to a machine, and you don't get any feedback (e.g. smile or any comment). No contextual information is available when you get each instruction. So your comprehension ofthe instruction is solely based on what you hear, and you haveno idea what you will have to do beforehand, which is awful. On top of that, you aretaking a test, which not surprisingly is making you nervous and self-conscious, which doesn't happen when you talk to other people. The combined effect of all of these is that you end up speaking english a lot worse than you would do if you talk to people. Therefore, whatever score you get, probablly it will reflect how your English will be in the worst situation. Now that iI have talked about the bad side of the test, I might as well talk about some simple strategies you can use to cope with the difficulty. One is (to be continued in the next segment) |