时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2007年(一)月


英语课
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

Graduate students often work as teaching assistants while they study in the United States. Teaching assistants may get money or get to take classes for free, or both.

A T.A. usually works about twenty hours each week. In some cases, the professors they assist have big undergraduate classes with hundreds of students. The professor gives one or two lectures a week, and teaching assistants lead smaller discussions at other times.




They also give tests, grade work, provide laboratory assistance and meet with students who need help. And they have their own educations to think about.

Labor 1 unions have been working to organize teaching assistants who feel overworked and underpaid. Some schools have had strikes.

Another issue is the language barrier. Many states have proposed to require that teaching assistants be able to speak English well enough for students to understand them. Universities have increased their efforts to deal with this problem.

Our example school this week is the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. The Institute of International Education says more foreign students go to USC than any other American university.

The American Language Institute at USC provides training to help international teaching assistants improve their English. The university requires most non-native English speakers to pass a test before they can become a T.A.

Those who went to college in an English-speaking country do not have to take the test. The same is true for those who scored at least twenty-seven on the speaking part of the TOEFL Internet-based test.

The exam at USC is a fifteen-minute spoken test that involves two examiners. Students talk about their education and interest in the school. Then they present some issue or idea from their area of study, and answer questions about it from the examiners.

Those who do not score high enough on the test have to take classes to improve their English. Until their English is better, some departments give them jobs that do not require them to communicate with students.

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. Listen next week for the next part in our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States.

MP3 files and transcripts 2 of the series are at www.unsv.com. If you have a question or comment, write to special@voanews.com, and be sure to include your name and country. I'm Bob Doughty 3.

1 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
2 transcripts
n.抄本( transcript的名词复数 );转写本;文字本;副本
  • Like mRNA, both tRNA and rRNA are transcripts of chromosomal DNA. tRNA及rRNA同mRNA一样,都是染色体DNA的转录产物。 来自辞典例句
  • You can't take the transfer students'exam without your transcripts. 没有成绩证明书,你就不能参加转学考试。 来自辞典例句
3 doughty
adj.勇猛的,坚强的
  • Most of successful men have the characteristics of contumacy and doughty.绝大多数成功人士都有共同的特质:脾气倔强,性格刚强。
  • The doughty old man battled his illness with fierce determination.坚强的老人用巨大毅力与疾病作斗争。
学英语单词
accumulation of severe pathogenic cold
acedia
Amsonia
assessor of the vice-chanceller
balistoides conspicillum
beginning-of-tape mark
berylium
big coal D
biokinetics
bleed sb white
boninensis
books of baruch
bound data
bridge span
cabin liner
chironemids
chung c'h?
climatic productivity
consistency of umvue
corn poppy
Cosulid
counter-arc circuit breaker
counter-list
crevises
CRUD cycle
daniken
differential measure
Distoma haematobium
DNS name server
escort destroyer
freedom of movement
fusarium concolor
futtock
gas-flow counter
genus Lithops
getting their hands on
glebula
go missing
gradino
have a fling
horizontal single action presses
hydrazinolyses
hydrostone
information officer
inner beam
inplantation
interleave type core
intestinalis ventr. arteria
intra-uterine pneumonia
kuder-richardson
lace into
ligularia schmidtii makino
lithiasis conjunctivae
loinskin
luminance band
macrocyst
magnetic thrust bearing
majority charge carrier
maybelline
MEH (feedwater pump turbine electr-hydraulic control system)
metallic silicon
Muddy R.
musculus plicator pinnae caudalis ventralis
nine day wonder
Nivastroy
obstacle judge
on a level with
overall thermoelastic modulus
panpiping
Papilla ileocecalis
percent of call completed
perl
perspectivally
pitot-static rake
Poa breviligula
Porto Grande
pourthiaea villosa parvifolia
propellable
pteria avicular
random vibration test
Raums posterior
reactor noise
redactive
resharpened
Rodersdorf
rotor clearance
sahuarita
sailing-raft
shunt wound dynamo
silt carrying capacity
sink one's differences
skin-pulmonary
spring pblebotome
Stella, Pizzo
summoned up
tape correction
there's no going back
thost-unna syndrome(diffuse palmoplantar keratod-erma)
twisting pass
ugundite
under-borrowed developing member country
Vester Skerninge