What i learnt from seminar is understanding what the difference of media such as television viewing habits from other countries is. Today we discussed on 3 topics: Television viewing habits, Television images, Future of television.
Regarding to television viewing habits, I found that in Morroco, women watch television more than men because many house wife just stay at home, look after their children, prepare cooking, go shopping sometimes. In China, it is a little bit different. Zhang said that China people prefer watching on internet to television because most of China channels is free for everyone. One suprised thing is about 100 channels in China as a vast China in the world. He mean there are many provinces in China and some channels in each province. In Iran, most of people like watching comedy and spend much time on watching television at night.
We also agree that government, television company and audience control television images. It could be true or not depending on what gender or age of audience are. However, i think advertisment consultants have a lot of ideas of television images although they don't decide broadcast these images.
The future of television is what we are looking for because television takes a certain role in our lives. We know that television signal will be switch off 100% digital in the UK from 2008 to 2012. It will be extra-channel, better sound and higher quality when we use digital television.
What we discussed in seminar is more interesting than presentataion because we spent more time talking much that topic. Another thing i learnt from seminar is maybe interaction, reflection at the time or after the time someone's speaking.
However, i am not happy with my weakness from seminar. Perhaps my strong points is not enough good to cover my weakness. Here is my feedback of seminar:
-MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE SEMINAR: I think i have enough preparation to share what i searched on internet, but i don't talk too much. I just discussed based on what i searched, and some my ideas. Perhaps due to my characteristic, i don't talk too much in life, just prefer doing what i speak than speaking without doing. Basically, i feel it is fine but i need talk more in second seminar.
-USE OF SEMINAR LANGUAGE: I don't use much seminar language because most of people share the idea or what they found a research in their countries. If the topic is easier to lead to argument, i think i will do better and can learn more interesting thing from other people.
-LISTENING AND BODY LANGUAGE: What i can say is that i am good at listening what everyone says. Although i didn't use body language much, i think i will do better in another intersting topic, such as painting, entertainment, food, animal, flower, music, politic, economic...
-PRONUNCIATION: I think it is getting better than before, but still some problems of stress in a word or stress in one sentence.
-GRAMMATICAL ACCURACY: I feel my grammar is quite good when i speak, but unfortunately, it is not nescessary in seminar particularly or in speaking generally.
-VOCABULARY: Actually i don't know much vocabulary about Media, i wish it connected to business vocabulary. However, i don't find any serious problem on this section.
