Jiang Chunhui, a junior student with the Faculty of Foreign languages won the third place in The Thirteenth “21st Century•Lenovo Cup” National English Speaking Competition.

　　Jiang Chunhui is a junior student of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Ningbo University. In the finals held on April 14 in Beijing, Jiang Chunhui beat many competitors from famous universities like the Bejing Foreign Studies Univeristy and the Qinghua Univeristy and won the the third place in the end.

　　Jiang Chunhui: I’m very happy that I won the bronze medal this time. With that I can go to the UK for exchange study. It signifies a big stride forward in my English study.

　　The “21st Century•Lenovo Cup” National English Speaking Competition, sponsored by China Daily and co-sponsored by the 21st Century, is so far the most academic and authoritative English competition in China. Around China, more than one million students have participated and wachted the competitions. Jiang Chunhui passed successively the online screening, the phone interview by American experts and came out as the third place winner in the East China Division, and finally made his way to the national finals. His coach, Ms Fu Jieying tells us that since 2005, Jiang Chunhui has been participating in various English speaking or debating competions. It was a great achivement for him to have taken the third place in the national finals.

　　Ms Fu Jieying, Jiang’s tutor: Firstly, he is industrious and has special interest in English. Secondly,we have a coach team for him in the Faculty. We are an outstanding work group. This is the best achivement we’ve ever made. It is also a good showcasing of the English teaching of Ningbo University.

　　Since 2001, the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Ningbo Uinversity has attached great imporatnce to extracurrilar learning activities for the students. The Faculty started to offer the course of spokent English in 2003, with particular emphasis on student’s speaking competence, overt capablity and innovative thinking. Currently, the Faculty is to set up an English Skills Development Base, which aims to cultivate the skills of speaking, debating and performing of the students, etc.