The
'golden bowl' of translation
(2004-01-09, People's Daily)
They are a specialgroup of people. Through the audio-visual equip-ment
before them, they can utter thousands of words instantly and, in doing
so, earn up to 1,000 yuan (US$120) per hour.
New
Oriental guilty of copyright violation
(2004-12-30,
China Daily)
The Beijing-based New Oriental Education Group was exempted from a charge
of trademark infringement on two US-based educational institutions but
is guilty of a copyright violation.
Local
student tops in world TOEFL scores
(2004-11-12 7:38, Shanghai Daily)
Zhao Zheng, an undergraduate at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics,
said it never occurred to her that she would get the world's top score
in the Test of English as Foreign Language.
Overhaul
necessary in English education
(2004-10-31, Taipei Times)
In recent years much attention has been paid to the lack of adequate English
education in Taiwan. Most recently, Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou criticized
the Ministry of Education for writing an English educational agreement
that was riddled with spelling and grammatical errors.
Students
gripe about English class
(2004-09-28
7:42, Shanghai Daily)
At least two students at Wall Street English School said the teaching
facility declined to offer further classes because they were "learning
too fast."
Star
teacher committed to the suburbs
(2004-11-08 7:18, Shanghai Daily)
"Love is everything. It can make the earth a better place to live."
That saying, made famous by Chinese writer Bin Xin, is the motto of Zhang
Yuqing, an English teacher at Shanghai Fengxian High School.
American-born
Taiwanese to teach at camps
(2004-06-04,
Taipei times)
The Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission and the King Car Education Foundation
announced yesterday that they would cooperate to bring American-born Taiwanese
to remote areas of Taiwan to teach English.
Project
launched to make English more accessible
(2004-03-31,
Taipei Times)
World Vision Taiwan announced yesterday the beginning of its collaboration
with Studio Classroom to bring English into disadvantaged communities.
English
teaching: check the theory!
(2004-03-08,
Taipei Times)
Recent slanderous articles have claimed that the early teaching of English
in kindergartens has a detrimental effect on young children. Two such
articles include one by Chen Shu-chin ("English is a blight on young
kids," Feb. 17, p. 8) and Jonathan Chandler ("Chomsky would
frown," Feb. 20, p. 8), who attempts to explain the famous linguist
Noam Chomsky's theory of language acquisition in hypothesizing that "When
exposed to two languages with dissimilar sentence structures, such as
Mandarin and English, a child's mind may well become confused and even
impeded in its natural advancement."
China
reforms obsolete English teaching methods
(2004-02-24
10:02:42, cctv.com)
In Beijing, whether you're in a coffee shop, on the subway, in a bookstore,
it seems everywhere you look, there are Chinese people trying to get to
grips with the international language. In order to shorten the distance
between "basic English" and actually "speaking English",
and in an effort to improve the overall level of English, the Chinese
Ministry of Education has launched a campaign in 180 colleges to reform
obsolete English teaching methods and strengthen new approaches.
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