Blue Mask

家里那头把他的英语作业给我看

还要我改错

简直是点我的死穴啊~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. INTRODUCTION

English learning ability has a relation with the season you were born! So the Beijing Foreign Studies University only recruits students who were born in autumn or winter! It seems to be absurd, but much research indicate that it will occur someday.

Jones[1] is the first person to correlate second language learning ability with seasonal birth-date. Although his research is limited to three countries: Germany, France, and Spain, the similar differences might also exist in Asian countries.

In the following years, many researchers studied the relation between English learning ability and seasonal birth-date in China. It has been shown by Bingle[2] and Buckley[3] that the students born in Autumn/Winter are better than those born in Spring/Summer in English learning ability. The average mark difference between Autumn/Winter and Spring/Summer students in Bingle and Buckley’s results are 12% and 3% , respectively. But a opposite results was shown by Zhou[4] in 1999.

We have made research to decide which season students who were born in actually are best in English learning.

2.METHODS

Dobson[5] compared some different methods of assessing language ability, and made a conclusion that multiple choice testing is best because of that: (1) it is fast; (2) it is better for objective marking; (3) students will be less worried about taking the test. So we chosen multiple choice testing for our research. The testing was a take-home quiz and anonymous marking. The samples were students from Tsinghua University.

3.RESULTS

Andey collected all the testing papers and analyzed the results.

Table I Results

The Table I show that the students born in Autumn/Winter got higher mark of general ability than those born in Spring/Summer. The most difference of mark is between winter and summer, and reaches 10%. In statistical theory, the confidence level of this difference could be more than 95%.

The mark difference of using articles between seasons is less than that of general language. But the  trend of learning ability with birth-date is similar, as shown by the Fig 1.

4.DISCUSSION

It has been shown by Table Ⅰ that the results are similar to Bingle’s and Buckley’s. The marked difference between seasons supports Bingle’s theory, that in a same class the students born in Autumn/Winter are older than those born in Spring/Summer, so their English learning ability is better, and they got higher mark in the test.

In biological theory, this learning ability difference may be due to the different temperature of seasons. In fetation period, temperature could influence the state of mothers, and the embryo may also be influenced. In the forepart of babyhood stage, baby’s brain would be influenced by temperature. There may be some complex relation between temperature and the growth of brains. The temperature curve has the same trend with the mark curve in Fig 1. And this suppose needs further approved.

5.CONCLUSION

There are some relations between birth-date and English learning ability. The students born in Autumn/Winter are better than those born in Spring/Summer in learning English. The possible reasons may be: (1) the students born in Autumn/Winter are older than those born in Spring/Winter in a same class; (2) during the fetation and babyhood stage, difference temperature makes different influence to the brains.

6.References

[1] Jones F., Trans. Education and Learning, 8 (1972), 315-340.

[2] Bingle A. and Sopberry W., J. Education Research, 12 (1993), 441-449.

[3] Buckley L., Zhou Y. and Haddon C.V., Asian Journal of Learning, 24 (1998), 213-221.

[4] Zhou X., Zhou Y., and Xin D., 1287-1294.

[5] Dobson C. and Hooke S., Language Rev., 35 (1996), 122-134.

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