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Students--they are what teaching is all about!
Here is a gallery of many of our former students.
(2002-2005 in Xi'an) |
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Michael's Junior Business
English Class 2004-05 (Class 1) |
Michael's Junior Business
English Class 2004-05 (Class 2) |
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Above left,
Michael's Sophomore Writing
Class 2004-05 (Class 2); above right, Michael's Sophomore Writing Class
2004-05 (Class 1). I was very pleased to learn (the
next year) that almost 83% of these sophomores passed the writing portion of
the TEM-4 exam (a very important Test for English Majors--"TEM").
Nationally, less than 54% pass. In fact, four students achieved a score of
"excellent" (which is very hard to do), 16 earned "good" and another 18
passed. Congratulations to these hardworking students!
Here is the Ph.D. "Movie
Class" Vivian and Michael taught Fall 2004. |
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Vivian's summer
oral English class, summer 2004. These are Aviation Engineering Students at
NPU. |
Michael's summer
oral English class, summer 2004. These are Aviation Engineering Students at
NPU. |
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(Left) Michael's
"Intro to Business English" class (Seniors 2003-4) had been his
"Junior Writing" class the year before.
(Above) Michael's
Sophomore "Intro to Writing" class (Tues. & Wed. 2002-03)
became his "Junior Writing Class" in 2003-2004. |
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Michael's
"Intro to American Culture" class (Juniors, 2003, 2-4pm) |
Michael's
"Intro to American Culture" class (Juniors, 2003, 4-6pm) |
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In
one sense, we claim ALL students who enjoy English! Only a fraction of this
250+ crowd attend our classes. Here they gather to watch one of the English
movies Michael & Vivian showed on campus in 2003. Similar crowds gather when
we present special English lectures on holidays or offer special classes
(e.g.: Sherlock Holmes or the Titanic disaster). We try to offer such
opportunities at least once a month to the entire NPU community. |
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Michael's Tuesday
"Intro to Business English" class (Seniors 2002-3) |
Michael's Thursday
"Intro to Business English" class (Seniors 2002-3) |
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From fall 2003 to spring of 2004, Vivian has also been
teaching oral English to soldiers as part of their three-month intensive English course.
Unfortunately, we are not supposed to post photos of these students on our
website. Vivian also
taught Western Culture (using movies as a focus) to two classes of PhD
students in 2003 (no digital photos available). |
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Vivian's
Spring 2003
class for young professionals
(They are holding hand-made Easter greeting cards) |
Vivian's Friday
class for young professionals (Fall 2002) |
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Vivian's Tuesday
class for young professionals (Fall 2002). The photo to the right is one of
Vivian's freshmen pronunciation classes (2004). |
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More Photos:
Click here (or above) for former students in
Kunming, Xi'an or
Shanghai.
Student
Essays: Click here
to see student essays from former students about NPU, Chinese holidays, and
more.
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