On August 2, the opening ceremony of the Nankai University Service Learning Social Practice Base and the opening ceremony of the “A Dialogue Between Nankai and Zhuanglang” summer English summer camp were held at Zhuanglang No. 4 Middle School, Zhuanglang County, Pingliang City, Gansu Province.
The “Teachers and Students Together” summer practice team of Nankai University is composed of 3 teachers from service-learning English support courses, Li Xia, Cui Xiaohong, and Xiao Yun, and 10 service-learning support students, and 2 alumni Li Danhong and Ms. Chen Jing. The team will hold a week-long English summer camp of “A Dialogue Between Nankai and Zhuanglang” among 600 senior high school students in Zhuanglang No.4 Middle School.
Li Xia, deputy dean of the College of Foreign Languages of Nankai University, will provide effective teaching workshops for English teachers in Zhuanglang County. At the same time, the service-learning English teaching team of Nankai University collected more than 500 English bilingual books through social forces, worth nearly 10,000 yuan, and donated them to the “Nankai Bookstore” of Zhuanglang No. 4 Middle School for free.
At the opening ceremony, Zhang Yucai, the principal of Zhuanglang County No. 4 Middle School, reviewed Nankai University’s contribution to the fight against poverty in Zhuanglang County. More importantly, the three strategies of “material assistance”, “intellectual assistance” and “teaching assistance” carried out by Nankai University in Zhuanglang No. 4 Middle School assist the No. 4 Middle School in different dimensions to reach a new level of development.
Li Xia said that service-learning courses of Nankai University adhered to the school-running mission of “Know China, Serve China” put forward by Mr. Zhang Boling, the first president of Nankai University.
This summer camp started from the four basic sections of “Listening, Listening, Reading and Writing”, based on the effective teaching model of Nankai University (O-AMAS), and carried out project-style English learning courses for students such as “English word and association” and “English reading improvement”. The formal courses of the summer camp project and daily morning and evening reading teaching activities have accumulated more than 100 hours. At the same time, Nankai students’ learning experience sharing sessions will be held to effectively help students improve their learning abilities from a methodological level.
On the same day, all members of the team led 600 students to successfully conduct a large-scale ice-breaking activity entitled “The Island of Interest”, which kicked off the six-day English summer camp.
The establishment of this service-learning English support teaching practice base injects new vitality into the education-poor areas in Northwest China. At the same time, these practice activities will promote Nankai students to perceive the development of the motherland in-field teaching and establish the lofty ideal of “serving the motherland with youth”.
