I am a Chinese applicant of engineer assessment.Now I have a question about certifications.About 5 years ago I applied for studying in Australia.I applied for and got a certification of relationship from Chinese Notary Office.That document includes my parents' name,birthday, and mine.But it also includes the address of the former unit we lived in at that time.
Now,under Chinese law if I want to get birth certifcation I should notice my company first.I really really do not want my colleagues to know anything about this before I can be sure of everything.
So I wonder if I could use this certification to apply for the engineer assessment?Or I must use a certification of birth.This is my question.
Sorry again, I can't type Chinese on this computer because I am not at home.
I think it is not true that English speaking teachers are always the best teachers. You need teaching from Chinese speaking teachers. They are the ones who convey English to you. My Professor was from Cambridge University, but he understood the Lunyu and Tang Shi very well and was able to show me how to understand the depth and beauty of the Chinese language in ways that I can never forget.
But we must be realistic. English is a living language and native speakers of English are the models in speaking and in writing. So at certain stages and in certain ways, you need the advice and tuition of native speakers of English.
What I do is to use Chinese where necessary, where convenient and where it saves time, in order to assist students. I have found that my methodology in teaching is efficient. It saves time and that means that you get results more quickly and in the end you are going to save money. IELTS is not a poker machine (laohuji) or a lottery. Don't do the test many times, over and over. Learn efficiently. --Richard Johnson ('Zhang Lijia')
作者: yowpv 时间: 2011-11-20 11:19
谢谢您的指点和建议。我已经整整五年没用过英语，所以那封信里的错误到处都是，让您见笑。
Although there must be many differents between different languages.One of the same things is,which I describe as "The right things are always the perfect things." I mean both Chinese and English can make people feel something if we use it correctly. In fact this is the reason we can learn to use non native language,or recall it after many years in only a few days.
作者: nolleyroiltew 时间: 2011-11-20 18:14
Hi Dr Zhang,
I agree with you to a large extent. Indeed, one should not sit IELTS tests over and over again (without working hard on improving English), especially when their English is still not good enough to achieve scores that they desire.
However, in my view, if they have already achieved IELTS scores which are quite close to their goals, they could consider sitting IELTS tests a bit more frequently. The reasons could be twofold. Firstly, I don't think IELTS is absolutely objective by which I mean IELTS may become a poker machine in certain circumstances. For example, IELTS examiners of Speaking and Writing parts may have different tastes and slightly different standards of both parts, which can then result in different scores on the same work of one candidate. Secondly, it is unlikely that one candidate would achieve the same results in several tests even taking all of them within a very short period. Actually, it is common to see quite different scores in two consecutive IETLS tests (perhaps only one week gap between the two tests) of the same candidate. Take myself as an example. I have experienced all the following cases:
i) I got 7 in writing and 6.5 in speaking in one test and shortly I got 6.5 in writing and 7 in speaking (3rd and 4th tests).
ii) I got 6.5 in writing and 7 in speaking in one test, shortly I got 7 in writing and 6.5 in speaking and before long I got 6.5 in writing and 7 in speaking in one test again (5th, 6th and 7th tests).
iii) In the Listening tests, I got 7, 9, 7 in three consecutive IELTS tests.
iv) In the Reading tests, I got 8.5, 7, 6.5, 8.5 in four consecutive IELTS tests.
As a result, I don't think IELTS is absolutely far away from being a lottery, especially when one can get quite close to their goals in their IELTS tests.
Nevertheless, your advice is indeed helpful for IELTS candidates who only achieve poor results. Because those results indicate that they still have a long way to go to achieve their goals.
By the way, I don't think '' is a formal expression. From my point of view, a more formal expression would be ''. (If I make any mistakes about this, please accept my apology.)