Led by Foreign Teachers Students Read Aloud Outdoors in the Morning to Practise Speaking Foreign Languages
As the morning sun begins shining on the campus, many students have already gathered in groups under the trees, on the lawns, or in front of the teaching buildings. Following their foreign teachers’ lead, They read aloud together passages from textbooks as a way to improve their foreign language speaking skills. These early birds, whose sounds of reading aloud even wake up birds from trees to join the chorus, are students from the School of European Languages and Cultures.
Recently, a special meeting on teaching reform was held in the School of European Languages and Cultures to promote the campaign of “Speaking Foreign Languages Anytime Anywhere”. The meeting concluded with a renewed scheme regarding freshmen’s participation in the read-aloud-outdoors activity in the morning. It is believed that by reading aloud beginners of foreign languages will improve their pronunciations and intonations and become more sensitive to and interested in the languages. Foreign teachers of Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian and French languages have been invited to join the campaign and supervise students’ speaking activities.
English Corner Kick-start Blasts Off
The opening night of this semester’s English Corner was a real hit with more than 400 enthusiastic student participants and two foreign teachers, Charles and Benjamin, who together crowded the small square between Building F and Building G where it was held on October 11. The event was co-organized by the School of English Language and Culture, of which Deputy Dean Chen Sheng was also present to give a speech of encouragement to the students, and the Faculty of College English. The topic, “Guangdong and Hometown”, was released two days before the kick-start, together with more than 20,000 words of reading materials for students to get prepared for the night.
It is reported that the English Corner is scheduled on every Wednesday night for this semester. The two-part speaking arrangement of 3-minute prepared speeches and free talks on a given topic for each week continues as before, but one thing is different: Deputy Dean Chen Sheng has selected eight topics for the English Corner and built a corpus of 200,000 words of thematic materials around them. Access to such a corpus will definitely help students get acquainted with thematic knowledge as well as language and thus enable them to be better English speakers.
时间:Oct 16, 2017 8:52:00 AM
录入者:陈汝佳