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英语为什么要“学术”？
沈忆文 & 班哲民
北外与普特第一期合作
规划篇
学术篇
素养篇
All about academic English
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What is academic English?
What is your strength and weakness？
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How can you improve it?
weakness？
All about academic English
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What is academic English?
Q1: What is one of the common
features shared by most
successful leaders ?
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diligence
intelligence
perseverance
inspiration
fortune
education
family background
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
General English
English for Specific Purpose
YLE Young learner English
KET Key English Test
PET Preliminary English Test
FCE 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）
English for Academic Purpose
IELTS 雅思 / TOEFL 托福/PTE培生
FCE First Certificate in English
CAE Certificate in Advanced
English
CPE Certificate of Proficiency in
English
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
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Question it
Contact the author
Take notes
Talk about it
Expressing Yourself in
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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
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Put your most important points first
Repeat main ideas
Control your voice
Connect yourself to your field
All about academic English
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What is your strength and weakness？
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?
listening
speaking
reading
writing
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