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1 西語系電子報第六期 Copyright c Department of Western Languages and Literature National University of Kaohsiung (No. 6, April 2010) 西語電子報第六期 -1-

2 教學研究 : 奧利華老師於 3 月份赴台北參與 2010 數位典藏與數位學習國際會議, 並發表論文歐馨雲老師於 4 月份赴美國華盛頓特區收集資料鄭月婷老師於 4 月份赴義大利威尼斯參與國際學術研討會, 並發表論文奧利華老師於 4 月份赴德國參與國際學術研討會, 並發表論文狄建世老師於 4 月份赴美國舊金山參與中美教學會議活動訊息 : 本學期系上邀請到陳信智老師和泰利保羅 (Paul Talley) 老師擔任英文寫作諮詢活動的教師, 自 3 月 11 日起至 6 月 4 日止, 於每週四下午 14:30 至 17:30, 和每週五下午 15:20 至 17:20, 在西語系辦公室內的會議室接受諮詢, 歡迎同學們踴躍至系辦登記預約人文社會科學院於 3 月 29 日早上舉行院大樓動土典禮, 活動圓滿順利, 預計明年 9 月前可完工啟用本系與 Melody 文教科技興業股份有限公司合作之產學合作計劃, 已於 99 年 1 月 1 日生效, 歡迎同學踴躍報名同學可藉此難得的機會提前體驗職場, 為自己的未來加分, 詳情可至系網頁查詢本系與右昌國小學童英語教學實習計畫於本學期 2 月份開始實施, 分為晨間教學模式與補救教學模式, 目前系上已有多位同學開始到右昌國小實習, 歡迎同學們踴躍參與此計畫, 透過實際教學經驗, 讓自己更加成長西語電子報第六期 -2-

3 大一新生盃英文朗讀比賽已於 4 月 14 日熱鬧結束, 西語組共計 11 人參賽, 非西語組共計 18 人在此恭禧 102 級卓瑋宸同學及廖欣娟同學分獲西語組冠亞軍, 非西語組則由資管系陳慧明同學應經系洪浩明同學東語系周台棻同學分獲一二三名, 東語系吳孟純同學生科系蕭凱倫同學資管系廖琬璇同學獲得佳作配合本校 10 周年校慶, 高大與我英文寫作比賽將於 99 年 4 月 14 日開始收件,4 月 26 日下午四點截止, 獎金優渥, 歡迎系上同學報名參加請於收件期間內將報名表 ( 請至本系網頁下載 ) 及參賽作品紙本 ( 規格請見網頁 ) 交至系辦專題演講 : 本系於 3 月 23 日邀請國立中正大學外國語文學系陳國榮副教授至系上演講, 講題 : The Concept of Virginity in Eighteenth-Century English Literature 西語電子報第六期 -3-

4 學生事務 : 本校 10 週年全校運動會啦啦隊比賽, 共計 19 系參賽, 戰況十分激烈, 恭禧本系擊敗各系好手榮獲季軍今年 102 級同學們使出渾身解數, 又 101 級同學們發揮學長姐之風範, 於比賽倒數時挺身相助, 其熱情又有活力的表現, 錯過真是太可惜啦! 賀 101 級鐘譯德同學獲 10 週年全校運動會田徑競賽男生組 800 公尺季軍, 本系聯軍榮獲趣味競賽四人五腳女生組亞軍西語電子報第六期 -4-

5 2010 高大西語系級對抗賽 :3 月 30 日舉行你不要絆倒我 - 兩人三腳躲避球大賽 ;4 月 1 日舉行 Kill Me If You Can 羽球賽飆風愛腳 - 愛腳大賽 99 級王友蓮準備英檢心得 (TOEFL IBT 97): 準備托福的時間大約是一個月的時間, 其中我除了練習 toefl official guide 跟在網路上找資料以外, 用來對戰的都是平常累積的英文使用習慣跟經驗下列簡單說明我認為托福考試應掌握的重點跟準備方式 : 1. ETS 出的 Official Guide 一定要看 Official Guide 雖然有點厚度, 但裡面很失望地只有一回測驗, 好處是, 它包含每一種題型托福官方的評分標準 ( 讓你幾乎可預測自己可拿幾分 ) 2. 托福考試大部分都圍繞在學術場景, 而聽力幾乎佔了約一半的考試, 如果系上全英文的教學可以完全聽懂, 聽力部分應該就沒問題還需要加強的話, 就需要買托福題庫反覆聽 CD 3. 口說是一定要練習的部份, 我的準備方式是與同學練習, 我的建議是聽的西語電子報第六期 -5-

6 時候要寫下關鍵字, 然後在嗶聲前的一分鐘內把第一個開場句子整個寫下來, 因為第一句可以講的出來, 心理壓力也不會那麼大, 也就可以侃侃而談 4. 我在考前都是到大陸的論壇找資料 ( 大陸的出國考試相關資料非常多 ), 它提供作文模版參考還有很多實用的考後心得, 而且看一看就會充滿鬥志, 因為大陸學生的成績都非常高每個人準備考試的方法都不同, 但有幾點是考生除了在準備考試以外須知的注意事項 1. 考場的選擇非常重要 IBT 可以自己選考區跟考場, 而我選到的戴爾美語考場空間非常小, 有時還要移動座椅讓隔壁的人通行, 對考試的干擾可想而知 2. 沒有人性的托福考試約四小時, 中間只有約 10 分鐘的休息時間, 我建議同學一定要帶食物 99 級周雅蘭準備英檢心得 (IELTS 7 分 ): 我是報考今年一月九號的梯次, 大約於兩個月前開始積極準備, 以下是我對各項目的準備方式聽力 : 首先就是要讓自己習慣英式英文的腔調, 偶爾會開 BBC 的廣播來聽, 即使聽不大懂還是就開著讓自己去習慣就對了, 此外也可到網路上找其他自己有興趣剛好又有英國人講話的影片來聽, 任何主題皆可大約在考前兩個禮拜, 每天我都會到圖書館的英檢準備專區做聽力考古題, 一個 test 大約有 40 題, 我大概一天聽兩三個 test, 幾天下來大概就可以很熟悉題型和內容, 常常會出現學術類演講大學生討論作業向旅行社詢問旅遊諮詢或是訂機票旅遊團中嚮導的解說等等答西語電子報第六期 -6-

7 案常會依據順序出現, 如果某題一直聽不到答案就先跳過, 一定要繼續往下聽閱讀 : 考試大約會有四到五篇篇幅很長的文章, 依據文章的內容要你回答十多題題目, 題型多變化我也是到圖書館練習考古題, 每種題型都要去練習因為篇幅很長, 我會先看完題目, 再從文章中一段一段去找答案, 千萬不要想把整篇文章每句都仔細讀懂, 要依據問題中的 key word 去文章中找答案, 而不是先把整篇讀完再回頭找, 不然時間一定會不夠口說 : 我在圖書館借口說測驗的書, 回去和同學互相練習, 請同學當口試官問問題或是跟你聊天, 其實內容很廣不好掌握, 所以就多練習講, 各種話題都是可以的, 主要是要嘗試讓自己可以完整的回答任何隨機的問題並且使用合適的字來清楚表達自己的意思寫作 : 寫作測驗 ( 學術組 ) 主要分為兩大部分, 議論文 (250 字以上 ) 和圖表題 (150 以上 ) 議論文或是論說文通常會要你去討論爭議性的話題並要你選一方支持, 例如 : 1. 孩童的教育應該由誰負責, 家長還是老師? 討論並提出你自己的意見 2. 有人認為出生於貧窮家庭的小孩比出生於富裕家庭的孩童更有能力, 你同意這個觀點嗎? 考試前一個月我逼自己一個禮拜至少要寫五到六篇文章, 寫完可以請同學幫忙改或是請老師看一下, 改過的文章可以再多重寫幾次, 多寫多改對寫作幫助很大, 每天都寫一到兩篇, 幾個禮拜下來組織思考能力和寫作速度就會明顯提升圖表方面也是可以去考古題找題目來練習, 只要平鋪直敘的去描述你看到的圖所顯示出的現象就好, 自己的看法不需寫入文中, 結尾簡單的預測是可以的寫作需要在一個小時內完成兩篇, 而且字數不可少於題目要求的, 否則會被嚴重扣分, 所以一定要多做練習, 時間要控制好, 一般來說圖表題佔約 15 到 20 分鐘, 其餘時間盡可能留給議論文那部分 99 級謝媞安準備英檢心得 (TOEIC 940 分 ): 我開始準備多益的時間大概是從大三上學期開始, 那時為了考試還買了些網路上推薦好用的書, 但是自從發現學校的圖書館有英檢專區時, 我就後悔花錢買那些書了其實學校有很多資源可利用, 圖資的英檢區提供了非常多的書目, 其中多益是最多的, 那裡的書雖然不能借閱, 但只要有空位, 就西語電子報第六期 -7-

8 可練習一回模擬試題我個人準備方法其實就只是不停的做模擬試題, 最重要的是要控制時間並且在規定的時間內一次把聽力和閱讀測驗做完, 最好不要聽力和閱讀分開做, 這樣就失去了臨場考試的感覺了除了圖資二樓的英檢專區, 三樓的視聽欣賞區也提供了一些多益用書讓學生們練習假如沒時間到圖書館, 也可登入學校網站的線上測驗專區, 這樣一來在家裡也可輕鬆練習多益, 一方面也會自動幫你計算時間和分數, 實在是非常方便還有一個方法就是借書回家練習, 雖然每次查詢多益的書都已被外借, 但只要先預約, 一次預約多本, 到時候那些書也都會全部回來我還記得那時快接近考試時間時, 我預約的書全都一次回來導致有些也沒完全練習到除了正規的準備方法外, 我那段準備時間的閒暇娛樂就是看美國影集, 當時只是興趣而開始看, 考完多益後突然發現原來看影集也有助於英文只要每天看短短一集, 讓自己沉浸在英文的世界裡短短四十分鐘, 長期下來就可有明顯的進步, 我的聽力高了閱讀五十分我想應該就是影集對我的幫助最後就是考試當天請保持心情輕鬆, 雖然緊張是難免的, 在聽力測驗時還是要全神貫注, 告訴自己絕不能因恍神而漏聽了一些單字, 最重要的是一定要先瞄題目, 這樣在聽的時候才能馬上選出答案至於閱讀測驗, 時間一定要好好掌握, 千萬別為了一小題的不會而耽誤到後面的題目, 在考試時拿出所有的實力應戰, 我相信大家都會有不錯的成績的! 100 級林欣儀劉世文邱郁婷李芸娘陳致叡龔品璁同學及 101 級王廷昭同學於 3 月 14 日至 3 月 19 日赴台灣大學參加世界模擬聯合國會議, 代表 Mauritius( 模里西斯 ) 針對全球性重大議題與來自全世界 40 個國家的 1,800 名學生進行討論, 表現突出錯過了增廣國際視野的好機會嗎? 就讓 100 級李芸娘同學來跟大家分享一下吧! Before last October, I had never thought of joining any activities like model United Nation. I didn t even know how exactly people do during the meeting. This is my first time model UN. It was an exciting, interesting and wonderful 西語電子報第六期 -8-

9 experience. I ve learned a lot from the event. World model United Nation is the biggest and the most international model UN. Students from over 150 countries gather together for the five-day-long event. Simulating the way UN uses, participants learn to use their skills of expressing their own opinion, organizing, negotiating and compromising to achieve their goals. The official language is English except for some Special Agencies. We had eight people representing our school, and none of us had ever joined this kind of activities. We didn t know how to prepare and couldn t get enough sources. In the end, al of us just took this trip as a chance to explore our horizons. Since this was our first time, there were plenty of things that we didn t understand and we spent lots of time to get through all those difficulties. From the way to pay the fees, to choosing country preference, all of these were all Greek to us. During winter vacation, we knew that we were going to represent Mauritius, which was never in our preference. A few days before the event, we were all so excited and nervous at the same time. We were afraid that we would not be able to understand the situation and be embarrassed when we couldn t speak for our assigned country.the event took place in Taipei city near 101. Every morning, students from all over the world wearing their suits, ties, or blouses walk toward each other s destination. I was in SOCHUM (Social and Cultural Humanitarian Committee) along with a sophomore girl from our department, Claire. The chair of our committee is a junior from Harvard University. Her name is Reema. The first day of the meeting was to decide which topic we were going to discuss. Every country had their own preference and every delegate on the speaker list tried to convince others to support their ideas. It took about minutes to vote for the topic area. For the following days, we were all discussing about refugees problems. In our committee, a few countries were dominant, like China, USA, Germany, Russia and France. After some discussion, we had to write resolution drafts. Delegates may go find those hold the same or similar opinions 西語電子報第六期 -9-

10 toward the issue to work together for drafts. While working the draft, people negotiated and compromised with each other to finish the drafts. Our country belongs to AU. Therefore, we joined AU; however, we couldn t even speak a word. They were speaking so fast and the way they discussed was too fast for us to keep up. Delegates from western countries didn t ask for everyone s opinion. They simply just spoke their minds and see if anyone wanted to jump in. That was the time I realized that my English ability was far below the standard of the meeting. The way we think wasn t quick enough to keep up with their discussion. Many of Taiwanese or Asian delegates could only stand around and listened quietly. After the discussion time, all of us back into the conference room. Delegates started to introduce their draft and wanted for others signature andsupport. In the end, we didn t sign for any draft. We were just neutral because we didn t see any drafts that really held similar opinions to ours. During the break time, one of the delegates of Germany came to talk to us. She tried to ask us to join her draft. All these left me the impresion that we were al like children hanging around in adults conference. We couldn t speak our minds because they mentioned it before we even thought of it. It was frustrating but meaningful. Besides the day-time conference, we had different activities at night called social event. At the first night, we held a global village and a party inside the Taipei City Hall. France, Austria, Italy, America, Pakistan and some other countries introduced their traditional food or customs to all the delegates. We tried American Rime and it was really strong but good. France share their smoked cheese, cookies and sausage. The cheese was so tasty that I still remember the taste. There was a stage in the middle of the City Hall and was playing music for us to dance with. It was funny to see students from different countries took turns to stand on the stage showing everyone their flags and themselves. There was someone holding a sign saying, free 西語電子報第六期 -10-

11 kises! It was a wild and crazy night and we turned the Taipei City Hall into a night club! World MUN is an event that you can meet different talented people from all over the world and enjoy the interesting social event. This is the first time for Taiwan to hold such an international event. Taipei has been trying for ten years to get the chance to be the host team of World MUN. I m glad that I joined the 2010 World MUN. I met many people during the event. I learn a lot about the procedures of the conference. I find out that I m stil too young to compete with others. I appreciate the World MUN experience. I know how to listen, to understand others point of view. The world is much bigger than we think we know. Be open-minded and neutral. I would love to have another experience for World MUN. 恭賀本系同學表現優異, 研究所考試錄取名單如下 : 姓名錄取學校系所 / 組別通過情形陸政輝國立中山大學外國語文所文學組錄取國立台灣大學外國語文學系錄取江怡苹國立成功大學外國語文學系甲組錄取國立中興大學外國語文學系錄取張以昕國立成功大學外國語文學系甲組錄取國立中興大學外國語文學系錄取蔡詠淯國立高雄師範大學台灣文化及語言研究所錄取國立台灣師範大學台灣文化及語言文學研究所錄取王友蓮 Fashion Institute of Jewelry design 錄取 technology University of Arts London College of fashion FdA 錄取 London Cordiwainer footwear design 鄭琬綾 Michigan State Department of Advertising, Public University Relations, and Retailing 錄取黃子揚國立政治大學外交所國際關係組錄取張羽彤台灣師範大學圖文傳播學系影像傳播科技組錄取許碧庭 School of Languages, Linguistics and The University of Cultures, Centre for Translation and Manchester Intercultural Studies 錄取李怡璇國立彰化師範大學英語學系乙組錄取謝佳琳國立成功大學外國語文學系乙組錄取截至 99 年 4 月 20 日止西語電子報第六期 -11-

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