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Sandra's Experience Sharing

Links from Sandra!!! (Useful!)
http://etds.ncl.edu.tw/theabs/site/sh/search_adv.jsp?isme=1205071099536me=1205071099536
http://www.lib.ntust.edu.tw/
http://web1.nsc.gov.tw/
https://nscnt07.nsc.gov.tw/WRS/
http://www.ceps.com.tw/
http://findbook.tw/search
http://ndds.stpi.org.tw/
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It is just wonderful to have Sandra in our class.

Journal #7 Speeches

I have listened to two speeches this few days; one of them is “English Next” by David Graddol and the other is “Intercultural Language Learning” by John Corbett. Being a graduate student, I tend to listen to the seminar or speeches much often than I used to be. Yeah, it’s always good to listen to some scholars or professionals’ talks and sharing. Like Newton’s (adopted by Google Scholar) famous dictum—because I stand on giant's shoulder, I should use wisely of what had been achieved or been done by the authorities, I should grab every chance of standing on giant’s shoulder.

One of the themes I found impressive in Dr. Graddol’s speech was that there’s no Standard English in the world. I have heard similar ideas in Rebecca’s class two years ago.

At the forum, Dr. Graddol argues that we are already in a very new kind of environment and a new phase in the global development of English. The number of English users is expanding, and it would probably reach to an amazing amount of statistics. He also analyses the phenomenon by demographic and economic trends in the 21-Century which affect Global English and language policies worldwide and will influence its future. Even though some part of his speech was quite vague to me, I liked the speech and I am happy that I did went to it.

Feature Article: Intercultural Language Teaching

University of Glasgow :: English Language :: John B. Corbett


(MICROSOFT WORD) Feature Article

Feature ArticleIntercultural Language Teachingby John Corbett, University of Glasgow

口說小俚語 sb. take the fall

口說小俚語
No.288 2008.11.05
老美講話偶爾會不按牌理出牌，有些流行的美式說法，讓人乍聽之下更是一頭霧水！想學道地美式流行語，每週兩則，讓小丸子幫你搞定這些惱人俚語，才能真的跟老美相談甚歡！
sb. take the fall (=某人佔領了瀑布？！)

實用指數：96%
職場上有時候的確是像電視裡頭上演的連續劇一樣，會有那種今天是被陷害，改天換你陷害別人的情況發生，雖然這確實是不道德的行為，但大部分的人其實也是為了保護自己，只是採取的方法不好，會傷到別人；況且傷害了別人，自己的心裡一定也不好受的。
來聽老美怎麼說？
Gary：Don't let your guard down, Sophie. Ken is still plotting.　 　　　（不要放鬆妳的警戒，蘇菲。肯恩還在策劃陰謀。 ）
Sophie：He's been trying to make me feel uncomfortable and 　　　　nervous...and it's working.　　　　　（他一直試圖讓我感覺不舒服和緊張...而且已經有了效果。 ）
Gary：He's mad about the spreadsheet. Keep your eyes open─　　　he might engineer some sort of foul-up and then try to make you 　　　take the fall.　　　　　（他因為分析表的事很不爽。妳要時時提高警覺，他可能會故意製　　　　造一些錯亂，然後會試圖讓妳一肩承擔所有責任。 ）
Sophie：I'll be careful.　　　（我會小心。 ）
俚語小解析
．sb. take the fall　某人一肩承擔　此句通常用於某人，不論公平與否，而為了別人所做的事情而接受指　責，其實是類似替別人揹黑鍋的意思，有些人為了保護自己，常會設　計一些陷阱，讓別人"take the fall"。

更多小俚語：別動！你的背已經被抓住了！(=I don't know what's holding sb. back.)

﹝CALL﹞An Invitation to CALL

An Invitation to CALL


The website of the course CALL in LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT at STANFORD UNIVERSITY which I consider quite good.

Journal #6 More ideas about how to graduate

Last Thursday in Robert's class, we had a great visitor YVONNE to share her precious experience of how she graduate and mostly about how she wrote her thesis. Yvonne indeed told us a lot of details in accomplishing her thesis and I really appreciate that. I learned a lot from her actually. After hearing her talks, I found that it can take a lot of hard working to get thru' all of this tough works. After all, no pains no gains. (There's no free lunch, you must work for what you want. 天下沒有白吃的午餐)
According to Yvonne, the topic part is the most difficult. It does not mean that finding a topic is difficult, but to make sure it is an appropriate and workable topic is. She said that searching for the material or reference was not a big problem for her; however, selecting the useful information out of so many reference she found took her a lot of times. Um...that's an interesting points to me. What I consider writing about is the concept of "Self-translation" in a book called "SWORDBIRD." Mr. Lin, the dean, thought it is a workable topic. Nevertheless, I am kind of worry about lack of the references. Whatever, I am still thinking about whether I'll stick to this topic or not.
In addition to writing a thesis, it is said to publish a JOURNAL article in well-known journals like SSCI. Well, if one publish a journal, he or she does not have to do the proposal; and then it will save a lot of time. Sounds really fantacy to me. I guess I'll start figuring out how this gonna work.
By the way, I've also been to Jalen's proposal last Friday. Since I have no one to compare to, I found Jalen's presentation was great even though the judges pointed out some of the points that he should have pay attention to. Alright I gotta go to a date now, I'll talk about Jalen's proposal next time.