英语为什么要“学术”？Come Here Go Further

沈忆文 & 班哲 民

北外与普特第一期合作

What is academic English?1

What is your strength and weakness ？

How can you improve it?

weakness ？

All about academic English

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What is academic English?1

All about academic English

Q1: What is one of the common features shared by most

successful leaders ?

1. diligence2. intelligence3. perseverance4. inspiration5. fortune6. education7. family background8. etc…

The finding is

•a larger vocabulary!!!

• What does this finding imply? 为什么大于常人的词汇量能够帮助这些领袖人物成功？

这些领袖人物是如何获得这么大的词汇量的？

Q2 What is the function of language ?

Language is the vehicle of thoughts e.g. 爱斯基摩人有 60 多个词来形容白色

Language is the vehicle of thoughts

1 人的思维能力越高，语言能力也越高，反之亦然。

2 功夫在诗外 （宋代大诗人陆游） 3. 思维 = 快速理解信息的能力 + 信息综合处

理能力 + 思维判断能力（包括批判性思维能力） + 和创造力 + …… 。

International English Certificates

English for Academic Purpose

General English English for Specific Purpose

IELTS 雅思 / TOEFL 托福 /PTE培生 FCE First Certificate in EnglishCAE Certificate in Advanced EnglishCPE Certificate of Proficiency in English

YLE Young learner EnglishKET Key English TestPET Preliminary English TestFCE for schools First Certificate in English for schools

• BEC 剑桥商务英语• BULATS 博思职业外语水平测试• ICFE 剑桥国际财经英语证书 • ILEC 剑桥法律英语国际证书• TOEIC 美国托业（国际交流英语测评）

Teaching Qualifications

TKT 剑桥语言教学能力证书CELTA/DELTA /TESOL/TEFL

What is academic English?

• As students prepare for academic work at a U.S. university, they learn to analyze （分析） , synthesize （综合） , and evaluate （评估） information and to present （表述） their spoken and written ideas accurately and effectively.

Academic English

accurately and effectively

to analyze （分析） , synthesize （综合） , and evaluate （评估） information …

to present spoken and written ideas

学术英语• 不仅需要语言知识 （词汇和语法）• 更多的是阅读能力，理解能力，归纳总结，批判性

思维的能力。

• 雅思作文评分标准：– 1. 小作文：

• Task fulfillment• Coherence & cohesion• Vocabulary & structure

– 2. 大作文：• Argument, idea, evidence• Communicative quality • Vocabulary & sentence structure

Q3: What are the basic requirements on academic

English for a Harvard student?

Logic = Persuasion

• Rosetta Stone

Secondary Sources

• Judging Sources• Avoiding Plagiarism

Reading Academic Articles

• Bibliography• Topic Sentences• Abstract / Outline

Reading Academic Articles• Question it• Contact the author• Take notes• Talk about it

Expressing Yourself in

• Words• Sentences• Paragraphs• Chapters• Overall Units

Sophisticated vocabulary,Simple sentence structure

Share Your Findings in Writing• Define your problem clearly• Order your ideas • Help your reader predict what is coming

Share Your Findings in Speech

• Put your most important points first• Repeat main ideas• Control your voice• Connect yourself to your field

What is your strength and weakness ？

All about academic English

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中国学生需要哪些方面的提高• 从单句、段落理解到篇章理解 （ Paragraph structure,

text structure, coherence, discourse organization ）

• 从叙述和描写 ---- 到评价和批判性思维能力

• 基于所提供的信息写出科研论文。– 文体：论述文（理解、归纳、评价，举例、论证）

• 知识面的挑战：对专业知识和常识性知识的了解

Q4: Can you identify some of your weaknesses in academic

English?

It is better to try to be original than to merely imitate others, in my opinion imitation is always necessary before we can create something original.

Idea and creativity are very important, these are two main reasons behind anything that is successful. Products from company such as Apple had proven that being original is always better than trying to imitate others. The best example is their most successful product Iphone which outsells every single phone in the world and changed our life just from being original. Their success has proven that being original is better than imitate others.

To imitate others is usually very easy,all they have to do is to follow the steps, but all the hard work is done by the people who were original, and most of them had experienced failures and hardships. Not surprisingly it is the "original ones" always gets all the credits.

In our world, not everyone is as smart and creative as Thomas Edison, sometimes we have to learn to imitate others first before we can become original. Imitating is not always bad, it can also help to improve the product.

It's always better to try to be original than to imitate others, but imitating others is not always bad. We have to learn to imitate before we can create.

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Q5: What can we do to improve our academic English

Thank You