In the spring 2023 semester, we’ll continue to offer our mini-course, which will cover even more issues regarding English writing. Please see the following links for more information in both English and Chinese. Participation is free for NYCU students, faculty, and staff, but you must register for the mini-course before 12:00 on 2/27/2023.
Claire Hsu leads our online English Chat Hour, and for the rest of the semester, she’ll be inviting international students from various countries to join the chat hour. If you’re interested in joining Claire and her friends to examine how accurate your assumptions about other countries are, please see our Google Calendar for the link! (Please note that you’ll have to log in to your NYCU Gmail account in order to access the Google Calendar.)
On Friday, October 14, Vice President Shun-Hua Wei shared some tips about how to use English to write clear and effective sentences and paragraphs. A total of 56 people attended the mini-course, including NYCU students, faculty, and staff. Many thanks to Professor Wei for sharing his expertise in English writing with all of us!
*Please note that the location has been changed to Yangming campus, Teaching Building, Room 305 / 陽明校區教學大樓305室.*
This semester, we’ll offer a mini-course that covers some basic issues in English writing. Please see the following links for more information in both English and Chinese. Participation is free for NYCU students, faculty, and staff, but you must register for the mini-course before 12:00 on 9/23/2022.
English Chat Hour is an informal setting for students to practice their English conversation skills. We chat about a different topic each week: music, movies, YouTube videos, etc.
Our goal is to give you an opportunity to practice using your English skills without causing you to feel any pressure. There’s no need to register beforehand, and you don’t have to attend every week. You can just show up whenever you feel like practicing your English skills.
NYCU Talk is an English presentation competition that we co-organized with the Office of Bilingual Education. This competition is the biggest event related to English education that NYCU has held since the merger between Yang Ming and Chiao Tung took place last year. At the end of the event, we took a group photo in which we all made Ys and Cs with our hands to show our unity after the merger.
Around 50 NYCU students submitted videos of their presentations for the first round of the competition, and 16 of those students made it to the final round, which took place on Thursday, May 19. Those 16 student delivered their presentations live online to an audience of around 100 people, and we all saw 16 great examples of how to deliver an effective presentation in English. We awarded cash prizes to the top three places in the undergraduate student group and the graduate student group.
Undergraduate student group:
Graduate student group:
Many thanks to the students who participated, and to the Office of Bilingual Education for all their hard work organizing this event.
On Wednesday, April 20, we held a workshop on how to write an effective personal statement / statement of purpose when applying to study abroad. The speaker was Jonathon Hricko, Director of the Language Learning and Writing Center. If you’re a current NYCU student or recent graduate of NYCU who is working on a personal statement, you can book a free consultation with us. We can work together to improve your personal statement!
English Chat Hour is an informal setting for students to practice their English conversation skills. We chat about a different topic each week: music, movies, YouTube videos, etc.
Our goal is to give you an opportunity to practice using your English skills without causing you to feel any pressure. There’s no need to register beforehand, and you don’t have to attend every week. You can just show up whenever you feel like practicing your English skills.
