Our Students Our students are scholars selected by the Chinese government for further study in the U.K. who come to Chengdu for 3-4 months intensive English language training. At the end of the training course they ha...Our Students Our students are scholars selected by the Chinese government for further study in the U.K. who come to Chengdu for 3-4 months intensive English language training. At the end of the training course they have to take the IELTS test. Our task is to equip them for study in Britain, and to prepare them for the test which will decide their future.展开更多
Well known to students of rhetoric,classics,and the history of education,Quintilian’s Institutes of Oratory also merits the attention of EFL teachers and scholars who deal with public speaking and written composition...Well known to students of rhetoric,classics,and the history of education,Quintilian’s Institutes of Oratory also merits the attention of EFL teachers and scholars who deal with public speaking and written composition.Although created in ancient Rome 2,000 years ago,the Institutes is replete with insights that are as applicable today as in Quintilian’s time.After providing historical background on Quintilian and his masterwork,this article examines his comprehensive program of speech education,his explication of the symbiotic relationship between speech and writing,and his notion of the good person speaking(and writing)well as the ideal of ethical communication.In the process,it touches upon numerous issues germane to English language educators in China and to EFL teaching and research in general.展开更多
文摘Our Students Our students are scholars selected by the Chinese government for further study in the U.K. who come to Chengdu for 3-4 months intensive English language training. At the end of the training course they have to take the IELTS test. Our task is to equip them for study in Britain, and to prepare them for the test which will decide their future.
文摘Well known to students of rhetoric,classics,and the history of education,Quintilian’s Institutes of Oratory also merits the attention of EFL teachers and scholars who deal with public speaking and written composition.Although created in ancient Rome 2,000 years ago,the Institutes is replete with insights that are as applicable today as in Quintilian’s time.After providing historical background on Quintilian and his masterwork,this article examines his comprehensive program of speech education,his explication of the symbiotic relationship between speech and writing,and his notion of the good person speaking(and writing)well as the ideal of ethical communication.In the process,it touches upon numerous issues germane to English language educators in China and to EFL teaching and research in general.
