uplifting comments from students of the 2005 e-classes

                       Students’ Reports on e-learning 2005
1.      Chen Xuan: It is through making foreign friends online that I have made up my mind to learn English still better.I can now use what I have learned in the traditional classroom.
2.      Wu Yuyin: This course gives me a bridge which leads me to the real English kingdom, and becomes my important enlightenment……Once I receive a letter (she meant an email.---yaodong), I will think about it before I embark on writing. I feel my mind has a lot of sentences dancing and shining. My epals are to be appreciated…….E-learning teaches me how to communicate. When I communicate with a foreigner, I should know beforehand his or her culture. So, would not hurt anybody. I have an epal who is a black American .He minds everything concerns with race…..E-learning gives me a profound impact. I like writing e-mails and chatting. I always try to be kind and friendly. Although I can’t speak to them ,when I type the words into the screen I feel y emotion, my caring, my love transform through the line and reach people right on the other side. And I certainly feel rewarded. Their kindness ,their love gives me the true pleasure and integrate my life.
3.      Cheng Chunhua: (After the e-learning course) I realized that we can study English by ourselves. We can learn by ourselves. The teacher becomes an indicator (She meant facilitator) to supervise us. We can doubt what he said and find enough evidence to argue with him. The book is not the only tool any more…..I make a friend and we share every interesting thing with each other; on the other hand, he can point out my mistakes in e-mail and correct them. I learn from the mistakes, modify them and use them correctly.
4.      Qin Tingting: It seems that the (e-learning) teacher open a door which leads to a new world of English learning. After I study this subject, I feel learning English is no longer boring. It is colourful, vivid and imaginative. With the variety of Internet resources, my interests of learning English is aspired again.
5.      Liang Yingshan: I made some foreign friends by some foreign BBS. Olim is Russia, 23 years old. He teaches me a lot of web language and told me that I can ask him if I meet problems. He said he will help me as possible as he can…..He is busy with his work while I am busy with my study, neither of us have enough time to write a snail letter for each other. Email is quick and convenient…..Raja is another good foreign friend of mine. He is from Indian. He is 25 years old this year. He is a lovely boy. When I told him my English he asked my Chinese name because he is interested in China……He said that in his hometown every family has a family God, every child must follow their family God. When I told him I had met some problems in my study, he would encourage me not to lose heart. ”Learn from the past, plan the future and enjoy present.’ He said to me………Internet is very useful. It makes us get closer and closer, make the world smaller and smaller, and make our life more and more convenient.
6.      I can compose everything I want to tell my reader, whatever no matter food, music, sports, feeling, travel, anything I am pleased to share with my reader. Actually, my weblog is mirror of mine, it can tell people a lot about me…..the e-learning class extremely gave me a hand at learning English. The most important was not what the teacher taught us, was not that ICQ,E-mail, MSN, etc. What was really important is method how to learn, how to widen our horizen. The experience touching with the net told us that learning English not just from class and books….. I do love my e-learning .It is sorrow to say good bye to him. The e-class is over, but the learning never ends. I will keep e-learning myself.
7.      Zhang Shaomeng: I had started my e-learning earlier than the Internet and EFL classroom I took this semester. However,  the class did change some view of mine on the e-learning.I at last found out that what is more important about the e-learning class is to communicate with students all around the world, rather than learn by oneself. In other words, interaction is essential for us to learn a foreign language because that is that is what language is for----communication……I began to talk to foreign friends using tools like MSN messenger and Skype.After some random visit to BBS,I found it a helpful place to communicate too. And all these experiences are even fun. You can even talk with him/her face to face with the help of video-conference. That must be and is really an exciting experience…With this tool, I am going to make friends with even more people all around world and get to know all the interesting culture which they are bred in. This way, I shall become a real resident in the earth village.
8.      By using the chatting software, I can talk freely with my friend without hesitation and discuss something we cannot talk openly. Before using Internet, I always chat with my friends by phone and it is expensive. By using the Netphone I can chat for free. but actually I have overspent my time on it. At times when I surfed online I forgot my time! I cannot believe it can happen on me. When I found someone I like I can spend a whole day talking with him.