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
acoustic neurasthenia
air intercept
alpha range
anterolateral thalamostriate arteries
anthropomorphisms
balloon-borne reflector
bamlite
Bang Beng, Tg.
blue false indigo
bushing transformer
Caput stapedis
caviare
ciliary groove
clockwork radio
columnae carneopapiilaris posterior
Cooper's hawk
coriaria japonica a.gr.
cosmic thermometer
Dame Marie, C.
demagnetizing coil
diffraction line
dry pile
el meghet (el meget)
elephant ears
enraced
extremity of a segment
fast axis
feelings of movement
finger badge
giant condyloma acuminatum
gloss coal
gnathite
grey-white ice
hilot
histology
hypnagogic
hypotestoidism
i-tened
ill-hnmor
intertrough
irrealities
isoniazid
Kasulu
Kawnglanghpu
Keatsian
Kentucky, Commonwealth of
Khānāqah(Khan Agha)
Kuchean dialect
lechner
Leuctra
marmorekin
match up
measured
medal table
mercuric potassium iodide
mongolisms
Morundah
motar teeth
motorfield
negativists
octupolarity
oksenberg
OSE2
paper to bearer
parallel processing technique
pardners
passed for
Pathans
personal unions
pneophorus
pygmaeus
radices smilacis sieboldi
reaction curve
referrin'
rhynchospermum orthosporum caldwell
roller plate
Rondinha
roorkee
rubber compound for roof covering
RWC
Sakkara
shank pinion cutter
sob sisters
start-up flow rate
stones
strapped into
stratigraphic cutoff
structure programming
tank car freight
temporary loading
terminal vhf omnirange
thenars
Tipperary, Co.
Typha przewalskii
tyuyamunites
under-carve
universal-joint slip yoke
vapor phase system
vivum vadium
vocification
warie
well sinking