Sunday, May 16, 2010
Assignment on learning styles
Choose a character in a feature film/a Turkish or English TV serial that you like and make comments on the learning styles and the learning strategies and communicative strategies that he or she displays in the film/ TV serial by giving examples. How effectively do you think he or she uses them in the film? In what ways does he/she benefit from them and in what ways do they have a negative impact on him/her?
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Recently, I am watching an American TV serial called House M.D. A doctor, Gregory House, is the leading character of this hospital-based drama. This character has such a developed grammatical competence that I can't follow the sentences that he compose just in one minute. Also, his sociolinguistic competence is so good that he uses the social context, participants and shared information to manipulate people around him. He is using interactional functions of language but only for illocutionary competence or manipulative functions. In fact, he has no phatic communion or intimate styles. His sentences are full of analogy and rhetorical questions.
ReplyDeleteWhen I look at his learning style, I see that he is both field dependence and field independence. He is giving attention to details very much and these details leads him to see bigger picture more easily and quickly and help him diagnosing his patients. For instance; in on of the episodes, there was a baby. He was always putting some little toys in his noise. Dr house take a policeman out First and then a fireman. Then he thought that there must be a logic behind this sequence. Finally, he found out that child first put a cat in his noise and he was sending police and fireman to rescue it. He solved this problem and saved the child.
He tends to make faster, with more possibility of errors but better decisions which means that he is impulsive. For example, he can suddenly decide that there is a bubble in patient's lung and than he stabs an injection to patient's chest and saves his/her life.
With these chatacterictics, he can save many lifes but his lack of communicative strategies makes his life miserable and unbearaable. His manipulating, oppressive and dominant style makes people uncomfortable while thay are around him. They always fell like admitting some mistakes or confessing some sins.
Recently, I've been watching Big Bang Theory and I want to analyze Sheldon Lee Cooper who is physicist in the serial. He possesses a Master's degree and 2 PhDs and has 187 IQ. In terms of learnig style, he is field independence because he is obsessed with details and he has a whiteboard in his house on which he studies string theory in his spare time. Moreover, his left brain is dominant as he is perfect at analytic and mathematic. He also doesn't have tolerance for ambiguity. He also has symptoms of obsessive compulsive personality disorder and Asperger syndrome; when he finds Penny's apartment messy, he sneaks in during the night and cleans it up because he can't stand being in the same hallway with something so disastrous. He even can't tolerate the mess in other apartment. He has the feature of reflectivity; he thinks a lot solves the problem and then speaks. He is also auditory I think. He always goes around with his mp3 player and like listening lectures. In terms of learning strategies, Sheldon uses meta-cognitive and cognitive strategies such as self-monitoring, planning, selective attention, resourcing, auditory representation, transfer and inferencing.
ReplyDeleteRecently I have been watching a serial called Gossip Girl :)There is a girl called Blair. I wanted to talk about her.She was a student in a high school then she graduated and enrolled a unversity.She is field independence as she is very careful about the details but generally these are not related to school issues.And I think her right brain is more dominant. Because she is not good at math but she easily perceives and remembers visuals and auditory images.Additionaly, she cant stand ambiquity and a bit closed-minded.She is impatient and intorant in some cases.I think she is reflective.She thinks on a problem and then makes her aim.No one make her stop doing it.I assume she is visual as she prefers reading or studiying on drawings.Also she uses meta cognitive strategies like self manegement organizer,self evaluation.She plans for learning something.And recombination imagery and deduction are her cognitive strategies in learning something.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite TV serials is Cold Case. I am always surprised when I learn the real murderer. Lilly Rush is the main character in the serial and she is very clever and alert about finding proof. Even years passed after the murders, she opens old cases and finds the real murderers. She is field independent and she gives importance to small details and she is open -minded. When people tell her that she shouldn’t interfere because it can be dangerous to deal with rich or popular people, she manages to persuade those rich and popular people and made them admit their crime. She is determined at that point and also she is reflective and before deciding she talks to every suspect and examine all the proof. When she decided, she is always right and this makes her very successful in her profession. She is visual and when she believes that murderers always leave something visible about their identity. There is blood and any kind of material which has blood spots on it. She has the power of using language in an effective way that she can easily leave the suspects confused and can make them tell something about the case without realizing. She can communicate well and make people believe in her even if she tells a lie to confuse the suspects.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite movie heroine is Miss Marple written by Agatha Christi. I liked this heroine because she was thinking very deeply and used her spatial and intrapersonal intelligences to get her goals. She never asks unrelated questions which also show her logical thinking and using her logical intelligence about situations. She is not so communicative and speaks with people in a very calm way but learns and achieves what she really wants, and it shows that she doesn’t only use her logical intelligence but also her intrapersonal intelligence; doing all the things all alone and not asking any advices. She is also good in natural intelligence, because she can think freely during her planting and busying in the garden, which is also a little evidence of her not being so interpersonal person.
ReplyDeletethe most striking character in "Big Bang Theory" is Sheldon Cooper. He has a too intellectual personality: He is perfect in math, logic and science but lacks of understanding of irony, sarcasm, humor and humility. apparently he doesnt have much idea on communicative strategies but surely he knows almost everything about learning strategies as he is a scientist.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite TV series is How I Met Your Mother and I want analyze the character Barney Stinson. He is a field dependent character that he don't likes analyze everthing in details.I think his right is brain more dominant then his left brain because he can't remember names of the peoples he mets. He is disturbed by the ambiguity. I think he isn't an open-minded character because if their friends tells him something that contradict to his beliefs, he doesn't accept them. For example, he can't tolerate and understand Ted's attitudes towards women and wishes about maariage, so he always mock with him. He is also an impulsive person. He comes up with quick answers to the questions and he gambles several times before he comes to a solution and gets what he wants. I think is a kinesthetic learner because he doesn't like listening or reading something. He has socioaffective strategies because he loves interacting with others. He uses nonlnguistic signals in communication strategies. He use his gestures and mimes effectively. He uses all-purpose words and extends a general lexical items to contexts. He uses these features very affcetively that he can reach his goals by using them. However, because he lacks of metacognitive strategies, he doesn't do planning and so sometimes he lose his way. Also, because he use these features, his credibility decreases as a person and nobody begins to believe him.
ReplyDeleteI've been watching Smallville for more than 5 years. It's my favourite TV serial and I want to talk about "Lois Lane" character. She is a reporter and co-worker of Clark Kent(superman) in Daily Planet newspaper. I like her very much because I can identify myself with this character. There's so much "me" in this character.
ReplyDeleteFirst, she is field independent because she can recognize something unusual very quickly. She can see the differences easily and thus can solve the bigger problem with these small clues. She gives importance to details.
She is also right brain dominant. She is not an analytic type of person. She generally listens to her heart rather than her mind. Her visual perception is very powerful. Thanks to this, she learns that Clark Kent is "superman".
She has no tolerance to ambiguity. She is so curious about everything, you can understand from her job. She is the most successful reporter at her time and she wants to know everything. She is also partly closed-minded. She doesn't want to change her ideas.
She is definitely impulsive. She doesn't think much. She just does it. I think she is tactile, kinesthetic learner because she likes moving and she learns by touching, instead of reading sth.
As for her strategies, she uses imagery a lot. She does flashbacks in her mind and remembers the visual items there.
She also uses questioning strategy. She asks question to clarify things.
She also uses time gaining strategies by saying "ahh" welll uhmm" etc.
I am so addicted to "Smallville" that I can watch one season which includes 22 episodes only in one day. Now my favourite character is Chloe Sullivan, who is the best friend of main character, Clark Kent. She has field independence and her this personality helps her much in her job which is reporter of Daily Planet.She enjoys discovery learning and individualized self-paced learning. Sınce her childhood, she dıscovers the news by following the cues so she is very succesfull şn her job as a reporter. She is good at maths because she is also a perfect hacker.
ReplyDeleteı have been watching the TV serial House M.D those days. the doctor Gregory House is features in the serial. as I observed his behaviours in terms of field dependence and independence, I noticed that he is both field dependent and field independent. he has little skills in social relationships and he cannot easliy communicate with people. he chooses to avoid talking to the people that he doesn't get to know, therefore he is field dependent. but at th same time I can say that he could perceive hidden clues so easily that he achieves not to stuck on unnecessary details and he can catch the meaning of even the most little information. so, he is also field independent. he also can see stories of the patients as seperate parts, so he is very successful in associating the background information of them with their illnesses. so if we analyse this feature of him we can also say that he is field independent. in addition, he is very good at using the language because he composes such long and complex sentences that you cannot easily catch the meaning. he is a repartee, so Ithink we can assure that there is a strong relationship between his personality and cognition. field independence/dependence is also very important in L2 acquisition in terms of implementation of the drills, analysis, activities that a teacher will use within the leson
ReplyDeleteRecently I have been watching the TV series "Flashforward" and my favorite character is Mark Benford in this series. He is a succesfull FBI agent and he is good at solving problems and the complex issues.He is a good learner and he can get the knowledge in many ways. also he can recall the knowledge that he learned before and connect his previous knowledge with the recently learned ones.He can catch the clues easily and connects the pieces. He is so curious about everything that he is very open to learning. I can say that he is a multi learner. he can learn in many ways like visual, tactile, audio, or kinesthetic.He also uses questioning strategy in his job. He asks question to learn and clarify important things..
ReplyDeleteRecently I have been watching "The Tudors" as I have a great interest in the history of old kingdoms. And in this series I would like to analyze the main character,the king,Henry VIII. He is a field independent person, he is very fond of going into detail when there is something disturbing or interseting. He orders his men to search and investigate everything hypercorrectly that he wants to know.He isn't an open-minded character because nobody can tell him something that contradict to his beliefs, he doesn't accept them.For example he charges a huge quantity of people with death penalty eventhough their fault doesn't worth a fig. He can't tolarete such people who tells how the king should do sth. He is also very impulsive character because he doesn't think much over the war decisions or over the penalties. He directly takes his decision instantly.So I can say he also lacks the use of metacognitive strategies. Thus all the people of England couldn't anticipate what the king can do the next moment. He is a kinaesthetic person he is interested in playing tennis, dancing and martial hobbies. And I think he is a right brain dominant person as he acts with his instinct frequently and as he is very keen on some fields of art such as painting and music. He also doesn't have tolerance for ambiguity in fact he has no tolerance for anything by which he is irritated. As he is a king, generally questioning strategy is not his duty but his men's duty for him. I think he is strong in linguistic skills because he can motivate, inspirate or persuade his army and council men to fight the wars.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to comment on the character Ted Mosby on the TV serial 'How I Met Your Mother.' He is the leading character in the serial. The whole serial is composed of his narration of how he met his wife.
ReplyDeleteTed is a field independent person, he always analyzes the events in detail. His friends don't pay much attention to details, they tend to live the moment as opposed to Ted. Ted is more like a romantic and dreamy person. He has a plan, he wants to find the love of his life and he is focused on it. He constantly searches for that person. He tries to get a sign out of every detail. He questiong things frequently.
Apart from this, he is a visual person, while telling a story, he always visualizes it. While dreaming something, he always has a picture in mind.
Moreover, he likes reading and he can form long and complex sentences that his friends mock with. So he is also a linguistic person. However, as his friends are not as sophisticated as he is, when he starts to talk about something serious, they don't listen to him and make fun out of him. So his way of trying to communicate with his friends don't bring him any benefit.