Practical Project Design

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Two Samples of Students' Practical Projects

Note to the Appendix

For both students and tutors, two samples of students' practical projects are included. In order to give you an authetic picture of what real-life students' projects look like, no editing has been made on the original texts, although the original formats and layouts have been slightly altered in order to cut the length of the appendix to its tolerable size.

Note that the samples should not be treated as the models for students to follow blindly.

The authors of the present book would like to take this opportunity to thank the two students who are kind enough to allow their projects to be included in the appendix.

Project Title:

Oral Work Organization
& Learners' Interest

Investigator
Zhou Zhao-yu
Beijing TV University

Submitted on 30th June 1999
In fulfillment of the course
Practical Project Design

Acknowledgment

I am mostly grateful to my supervisors Dr. Yang Yonglin and Miss Liu Jin without whose support and patience this project would not even have got off the ground.

I am also grateful to my colleagues Qi Zhongfu, Mao Ying, Chen Xiaoyi and Sun Lijuan for their time spent on brainstorming and panel discussions with me.

No amount of thanks will be adequate for my students without whose willing participation in the project implementation it would have remained on paper.

Last but not the least, big thanks go to my husband and my son who have shared with me my worries, frustrations, and hopefully my ultimate happiness in eventually finishing this project.

Abstract

The present study presents a detailed report of a project implemented to solve the problem that most of my students do not like doing the oral practice I assign them to do after class. It is hypothesized that learners' interest in oral practice after class will be greatly increased by a better organization in this respect. This hypothesis is verified by a four-week practice of well-organized oral work activities.

Methodologically, four methods are used, and they are analytic method, cause analysis, questionnaire survey, and brainstorming activation.