On April 24th, 2021, the fourth National Japanese Speaking Contest for Universities ended. Under the leadership of Li Ye, deputy chair of the College of Foreign Languages of our university well prepared, Dong Wenlan,, from the School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, USST in Grade 2018, stood out in the fierce contests of the preliminary and the final and won the special prize in the national final, creating the best results of our university in this contest. The steering group also include Zhou Xiaojie and Yusuke Fukui, two other teachers from the college.
The contest was co-sponsored by the Japanese Division of the Steering Committee of Foreign Language Teaching in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education and Japanese Branch of the Association of Foreign Language Teaching in Colleges and Universities, and organized by Xi'an International Studies University. A total of 35 non-Japanese majors from 35 colleges and universities across China entered the final contest, which was held online and offline. The final contest was made up of prepared speech and impromptu speech. The standards for evaluation included four parts, pronunciation, intonation, grammar and vocabulary, content structure, and expression ability. During the propositional speech, the impassioned pronunciation, intonation, and appropriate body language of the contestant from our university fully demonstrated the spiritual outlook of contemporary college students. During the impromptu section, Dong Wenlan opened up her mind, and stated her opinion clearly and logically, winning unanimous praise from the audience and the judges.
Over the recent years, the Japanese Department of the College of Foreign Languages of our university has trained a great number of excellent talents of non-Japanese majors through various forms like the public elective courses of Japanese and Japanese Culture, Japanese as the Second Foreign Language, and Japanese as a Second Major. Especially, we have set up a series of tailor-made College Japanese Courses for the students who didn’t take the English exam in the College Entrance Examinations, trained students’ comprehensive command of the Japanese language and strengthened their cross-cultural awareness and competence, making them make better use of Japanese to tell Chinese stories well, spread Chinese culture and make contributions to the understanding and cultural exchange of Chinese and Japanese. The result gained in this contest is the strong reflection of the Japanese Department of the College of Foreign Languages helping train excellent talents of science and technology.
Dong Wenlan in the contest
