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This is the second of four courses designed to develop English language knowledge for use in translation and/or simultaneous interpretation. This second course will continue the development of the students’ English language skills, including focused listening skills, conversation skills and essay writing skills.
There are 17 chapters in this book, covering the relationship between writing creatively and critical thinking, the recognition of the problems in writing, the use of metaphoric language, the application with poems or poetic prose, the application with narrative, the application with parody and satire, the application with musings and journaling, the application with unusual vessels and technology, the design of assignments/assessments that encourage creativity, the correlation between students’ engagement and their revision efforts in writing, the creativity of the Common Core State Standards, lesson plans that involves creative choice and techniques, the approach to setting up an action research design, and providing students with opportunities for an authentic audience.
This book is aimed at training listening and notetaking sills for advanced level students of English as a second or foreign language. It offers models of two types of lectures, the noninteractive academic lecture and the slightly more interactive academic lecture. This book underscores the importance the external storage function of lecture notes, and focuses on developing notetaking skills. Topics covered in this book include anthropology and the concept of culture, history such as the Egyptian civilization and the Chinese civilization, sociology regarding gender roles and gender movements, communication in the classroom and between different genders, as well as biology such as genetics and genetic engineering.
