Scholarship Award Ceremony held to honor outstanding students in the 2019-2020 school year
On December 17, the 2020 Scholarship Award Ceremony was held at Academic Conference Hall C201 in the presence of Executive President Wang Hua and Deputy Secretary of CPC Committee at SCBC to honor outstanding students in the 2019-2020 school year.
In the ceremony, award-winning students came to the stage successively to receive scholarships and honors. They included 9 receivers of National Scholarship, 255 receivers of National Aspiration Scholarship, 10 receivers of SCBC President Scholarship, 28 receivers of Outstanding Freshman Scholarship, 1294 receivers of Excellent Students Scholarship for 2019-2020 school year, 10 receivers of “College Student of the Year” Award, and 2504 receivers of such honors in 2019-2020 school year as “Exemplary Excellent Student”, “Excellent Student”, “Excellence in Social Activities”, “Excellence in Academic Performance”, and “Excellence in Cultural Activities”.
Li Min, a senior student of Applied Linguistics from the School of Chinese Language and Culture and winner of National Scholarship, shared his experience in studies as he spoke in the ceremony as the student representative. “Self-discipline and hard-working should be built into our habits,” he said. From day 1 in college, Li Min has kept the habit of consolidating knowledge learned in class by reviewing and regrouping class notes, and the habit of broadening his horizon by reading extensively, taking notes, and writing commentaries. He reminded himself that it took time and effort to let the learning sink in and only by then could one really improve himself.
Executive President Wang Hua gave a closing speech in which he applauded the good qualities of diligence, ambition, and aspiration in the scholarship- and honor-receiving students. He encouraged students to keep up the good work. Quoting that “only if you can stand the hardest of hardships can you hope to rise in society,” he advised students that to build a good foundation for future development, one must make a good plan and keep learning, and that to live a fruitful college life was to learn as hard as one can in college. He hoped that all students cherish their college time, work hard to improve themselves and try their best to become all-rounded professionals like a real SCBCer should be.
SCBC holds the first Classic English Essay Recitation Contest for English majors
On December 17, the final of the first Classic English Essay Recitation Contest for English majors was held at the International Conference Hall of South China Business College. The Contest, sponsored by SCBC’s “Strengthening Foreign Language Training for Higher Language Proficiency” Task Force and the Division of Academic Affairs and hosted by the School of English Language and Culture, took only 10 finalists after several rounds of selection. The contestants would stand on stage to show what they had to the a large audience, including Chair of Board Ding Xiaojun, Supervisor Gu Yeli, Vice President Wang Xinijie, and many teachers and students.
The final consisted of two sessions. In the first session, the constants chose to recite one of the designated five essays, which were: Born to win, To Be or Not to Be, Bamboo Inspiring, If the Dream Is Big Enough, and Companionship of Book. In the second session, they had to recite a randomly-picked essay of two minutes from ten designated options. The judges would decide on 1 first prize winner, 2 second prize winners, 3 third prize winners, and 4 honorable mentions based on the overall performance of the two sessions in terms of pronunciation and intonation, pace and rhythm, emotional expression, and posture.
In the second session, Hu Yuting, contestant No. 6 and the only freshman English major in the final, stumbled a bit right at the beginning. Though quite familiar with the essay, she felt nervous. But she adjusted herself quickly, encouraged by her foreign teacher, Daisy, and her classmates in the audience. Taking a deep breath, she recited the excerpt of Born to win in a low, measured tone, with a kind of calmness unseen at her age. Her excellent performance, particularly her beautiful pronunciation in the recitation of Born to win, as the title itself said, had also brought her to victory.
Prof. Zhou Wengui, head of the Teaching Quality Evaluation and Supervision Center, spoke highly of all the contestants. “It takes a long journey to learn English,” he said. “If you want to see real improvement in oral English, the only way is to keep practicing.” He also encouraged students to lay down a solid foundation first and practice speaking step by step, moving from words to sentences, and then to passages.