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Teachers and students of the Department of Applied English, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, participated in the 2018 (7th) Professional Vocabulary Quotient Credential (PVQC) Contest and PELC Professional English Listening Contest (PELC), sponsored by National Taiwan Normal University and Global Learning and Evaluation Development Center. They won the championship of Professional English Business Management Teachers Group, 3rd place of College Student Group and Golden Brain Award, as well as 3rd place of Professional English Listening College Student Group and Golden Brain Award, as a result of their brilliant performances.
【Teachers and students of the Department of Applied English, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, won 2nd place of Professional English Listening Group. The teachers and students had photos with former Minister of Education Chin-Ji Wu (fourth in front row) and the committee members of the contest.】
PVQC and PELC have been held by the National Taiwan Normal University and Global Learning and Evaluation Development Center. The purpose of the competition is to enhance the English and Japanese listening and vocabulary skills of students in the workplace and life, trying to effectively shorten the gap between learning and use and fortify the core competence of international professional languages.
【Chair Ching-Rong Yang of the Applied English Department, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology (middle), won the Teachers Group Championship PVQC. She had had photos with former Minister of Education Chin-Ji Wu (left) and Deputy Executive Ten-Jiaw (right).】
In both contests, the participants included winners from the North 1st District, the North 2nd District, the South 1st District, the South 2nd District, the Central District, the Eastern District and the Outlying Islands, which is indeed a gathering of masters. Bo-Yi Liu, led by Prof. Yang—Chair of the Department of Applied English at Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology—won 3rd place in PVQC, and Zheng-Yi Liu won Golden Brain Award. This was the first time the department had ever entered the competition. It was not easy to win the awards from the regional competition and the first challenge to the national competition under the fierce competition against more than 50 universities and colleges. In order to encourage students to take the challenge, Chair Yang also entered the competition following her winning of the champion of the South Second District Teachers Group. Once again she won the championship of PVQC in the national competition. The teacher and student team also won the Golden Brain Award of Business Management Group with their awesome performances.
【Bo-Yi Liu of Applied English Department, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology (middle), won 3rd place in PVQC Business Management Group. He took a group photo with the committee member (left).】
Hsin-Hsung Lin, also directed by Chair Yang, won 3rd place in PELC, and Pei-Zo Liu was awarded the Golden Brain Award. In the three-stage elimination system from school selection, regional competition, to national competition, the department won 2nd place in PELC in its fourth consecutive year as the department continued to achieve good results in this competition. This annual event lasted for about 6 months, while Chair Yang integrated the content for the contest game into her listening class, training students in more than 10 types of workplace situational English practical sentences and dialogues and developing students' solid English in listening, dictation and literacy skills.
Chair Ching-Rong Yang of the Applied English Department, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, said that the Department has been committed to cultivating students' practical ability and actively guiding students to obtain international certificates. In recent years, under the efforts of teachers and students, students have been performing very well. In competitions focused on vocabulary listening, speech, singing, briefing, and entrepreneurial plans, they have achieved great results, laying a solid foundation for students' employment after graduation.
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