Academic Lecture Series given by English and Japanese native teachers from the School of Foreign Languages came to an end successfully on December 22nd 2011. These lectures were highly thought of by both students and teachers of our university. The eight lectures have covered a wide range of themes, including languages, cultures, fashion, philosophy, geography, and social life. These lectures not only broadened students’ horizons, but also increased their interest in foreign language and culture.
Among these lectures, Miss Amy Van Gundy introduced California with some interesting pictures and video-clips as the opening of the series for this semester. The second lecture was given by Professor Wang Daoming, who focused on the topic “English Vowel Length and English Derivational Doublets”. Mr. Byron Sherman, who came from Harvard University, stated how to learn languages by sharing the example of the world’s most multilingual woman: Kató Lomb in the third lecture. In the fourth lecture “Why Failure Is Good for Success”, Mr. Charlie Wilson encouraged audiences to face the failure and conquer the difficulties. The Japanese teacher, Mr. Wataru Sato, told the history of his hometown, Hokkaido. Mr. Charlie Reis showed the topic “What We Talk about When We Talk about Zombies”, sharing the ideas about the heated topic “zombies” with the students. And, Mr. Gregory Lawrence Smart used both history and his own experience to explain what “individualism” is. Lastly, James introduced the diversity of languages and dialects in Britain. Every lecture was of great theoretical and realistic significance, which were very interesting to attract the audiences.
The success of those lectures demonstrated the academic level of the School of Foreign Languages of BNUZ. At the same time, they contributed to students’ study of foreign language and culture. Both teachers and students are looking forward to the lecture series that coming in next semester.
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