LU, BING-HONG (呂秉鴻)
I joined this PBL course because I wanted to improve my English ability. It seems that I made a right choice that time.
In the beginning, I learned the rules of debate, and it increased my experience in critical thinking and English listening skills when I was preparing for the competition. Though I didn’t do well on the competition, but it was a great experience for me.
Then we had the class about Vietnam. The teacher told us about the history, customs, and culture of Vietnam. After that, we wrote an essay about the food of Vietnam. I learned how to search information and weave it into a full article, summarize a long article and analyze its content. By doing this, I studied more deeply about the article. My grammar improved a lot through all the writing tasks in class. I had a lot of interest in English, but in the past, I didn’t have a lot of chances to write any article or learn in English. But after I joined PBL, I wrote and spoke English a lot. If there were any words that I didn't know how to translate into English, my teacher and classmates were glad to help me. After all these practices, I can now write down what I am thinking fast and clearly. English debate, Vietnam’s history, and writing English essays were what I learn here, and they would be my useful skills in my lifetime.
CHEN, WEI-YU (陳威宇)
In this class, it was very informative, because of all the research I did and the books I read. I found a lot of information of my research topic, and by doing so, I have become better at doing research and gathering information. Doing all of the homework in English have made my English better and the previous debate contest also made my English better. I found my grammar mistakes from doing all the homework, and now I
am more confident of speaking in English because of the debate contest and the conversation with the teacher in English. After doing this essay, I learned more knowledge about the Vietnamese spring rolls and pho soup, their background history and how delicious and popular they are around Southeast Asia. Before writing the essay, I had no interest in what Vietnam had to offer. I did not want to write this essay, but because of this research, I was more interested in the Vietnamese history. And the essay that we completed made me feel accomplished. This essay could help me apply to the college, so it was very worthwhile.
By participating in this class, I have developed skills like conducting research and organizing materials that I found on the internet, then turning them into the materials used in my essay. And writing an essay is another important skill coming in handy in my future. I have learned the skills that I will never have learned otherwise.
I choose to join this class is because I want to improve my English. It seems that I made a right choice that time. In the beginning, I learned the rules of debate, and it enhances my experience when I was preparing for the competition. It improved my listening, too. Though I didn’t do well on the competition, but it was a great experience for me. Then we had the class which was about Vietnam. Teacher told us about the history, custom, culture about it. After that, we wrote a literature about the food of Vietnam. I learned how to search information and gather them to an full article. In this class, I learned how to summarize a long article and analyzed what was in it. By doing this, we can learn more deeply about the article.
My grammar improved a lot through the class. I had a lot of interest in English, but I don’t have any chance to write any article in English. But after I join this class, I wrote English a lot. If there are any words that I don’t know how to express in English, my teacher and classmates are glad to help me. After all these practice, I can now write down what I am thinking fast and clearly. English debate, Vietnam’s history, writing English
literature. I might not learn about all these in my life if I didn’t join this class, nothing but helpful can describe what I learned in the class.
I choose to join this class is because I want to improve my English. It seems that I made a right choice that time. In the beginning, I learned the rules of debate, and it enhances my experience when I was preparing for the competition. It improved my listening, too. Though I didn’t do well on the competition, but it was a great experience for me. Then we had the class which as about Vietnam. Teacher told us about the history, custom, culture about it. After that, we wrote a literature about the food of Vietnam. I learned how to search information and gather them to a full article. In this class, I learned how to summarize a long article and analyzed what was in it. By doing this, we can learn more deeply about the article.
My grammar improved a lot through the class. I had a lot of interest in English, but I don’t have any chance to write any article in English. But after I join this class, I wrote English a lot. If there are any words that I don’t know how to express in English, my teacher and classmates are glad to help me. After all these practice, I can now write down what I am thinking fast and clearly. English debate, Vietnam’s history, writing English literature. I might not learn about all these in my life if I didn’t join this class, nothing but helpful can describe what I learned in the class.
LI, SHANG-LIN (李尚霖)
As a whole, I thought this PBL course was a highly useful class to me. Since I participated in this class, my English proficiency has greatly advanced. While being in class, I learned a lot of skills like information organization, summary writing, and so on. These skills all had a great impact on my English writing and project presentation. Additionally, my ability of English writing markedly increased for the homework which required me to write and think in English. At first, I thought that writing an article all in English was an
extremely difficult task for me, but now I could finish it by myself. Furthermore, through the course which was completely in English, I could develop my English listening ability easily.
Although some words were still too hard to understand, I could learn more and remember more new words. For the English essay, this assignment could not only strengthen my English grammar but make me understand some features of foreign countries. Therefore, this task also brought me an opportunity to learn how to analyze and how to go deep on an essay. While I was looking for the information, I gradually became skilled at gathering information. As I came up with an idea, I could express it immediately and clearly. It was what I hadn't done before, feeling like I had been moving to another higher level.
Besides, when finishing the essay in English with my partner, I was deeply touched by a sense of accomplishment. I thought I had developed my English proficiency. In conclusion, this class gave me numerous skills and lots of knowledge, and what I had learned would be a useful set of gadgets that would help me in the future.
YI, CHEN-YAO (易辰燿)
As I entered the NEHS, I noticed that my English ability was not good enough to be a student in senior high. So, I chose the PBL course for the purpose of improving my English. At the first semester, we decided to participate in the English debate with encouragement when we were just beginners. What we prepared for the English debate were summarizing skills, logical thinking and oral proficiency. Plucking up my courage to give a speech to all the audience was not easy. Not until I tried it in this class, I could never give a constructive speech to my classmates.
Learning debate skills made me understand that learning English was not only improving writing skills but also training my logical thinking. After the debate, we started learning the Southeast Asia’s history. In class, teacher taught us a lot of WWII’s background information and SEA’s traditional cultures.
Also, he told us lots of local dishes which he ate in Vietnam.
Understanding the history of the Vietnamese, we started to write an essay on the Vietnamese food. By writing this article, I found it important to collect information from the Internet and historical books. Not only collecting the data, but also organizing the information played an important role in writing an essay. With the training in the first semester, summarizing all information was no longer a hard job. The ability of summarizing articles was also improved by doing that research.
After classes of three semesters, I’ve learned lots of skills which are going to be useful capabilities in the future.