Study Log

Be frankly, I am asked by Ms Chan to write somethings on study as preparation for the speaking test end of this month. The following is the detail of my study in this month.

Basically, I found Ms Chan always can make the class alive. I admit that sometime I find other lectures are quite boring, but not the EALD classes!

However, discussion of culture and language becomes more and more abstract. We were focusing on multiculturalism in the beginning of this month. Ms Chan explained about the diversity of culture in Australia and racism occurred there. Australia as an international country, has all the immigrants from all around the world. It is just like a mini global village where you can find a wide range of people here.

However, this complex society has its own problems. They practise 'melting pot', that is, all the Australians practise a national lifestyle and have their own identity. But this arises the problems of race discrimination. The diversity of culture will die off, and the minorities will be discriminated. Discrimination is obvious through the White Australian Policies (Europeans were encouraged to immigrate to Australia). The selective of the immigrants is due to the facts that 'alien race' might be dangerous to their culture.

Then, it came to the discussion of status of refugees. Refugees are totally different from the legalized immigrants. Some of them are victims of war and natural disaster, but the other are 'queue jumper'. Due to this, there exists a issue (a important topic of discussion) whether government should allow them to settle down in the host country.

Finally, we have a lecture on sexual harassment. By definition, sexual harassment is unwelcome disturbance (mentally or physically). We have a fun time talking about 'pun' and how different intonation and expression which may cause misunderstanding.

I think this should be the end of this post. Thank for reading.