Seat No.13 范妤菁 Yu-Chin Fan (cathleen) 91659436,
Seat No.12 葉翠芳 Tsui-Fang Yeh 91659411
Ming Chuan University
TIME : 65202-Th 8:20-22:05
Presentation .10/09/2003


Source of material:
1.Sprague, Jonathan,
JULY-30-1999 VOL. 25 NO. 30 , “ Mine Your Language!” The Copyright 2001 Asiaweek. Retrieved (no date). <http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/99/0730/cover1.htm>



2.Wen-Yue, Lu, Apr-24-2003 ,“Should Kindergarten Teach English” The Copyright 2002 ECE. Retrieved (no date)
<http://www.ece.edu.tw/modules/news2/article.php?storyid=176>



3.Rowland , Rhonda, December-31-1998 Web posted at: 9:54 p.m. EST (0254 GMT), “Babies learn language lessons before they talk, study shows” The Copyright 2000 Cable News Network. Retrieved (no date)
<http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/9812/31/baby.talk/index.html>



4.An Introduction to Language, Sixth Edition, Boston, Thomson Learning Inc. 1974
Subject to be discussed: It would be better to learn English when one is a child.Thesis statement=subject+ verb+ controlling idea (adjective + noun) Subtopic sentence= enumeration of three major subtopics Controlling idea: the motivation of learning English
the advantages for young learner
the resources to learn Major subtopics: It's necessary and useful to learn English in this society. It's more effective to learn a new thing for a child than an adult. The plenty of materials and courses especially designed and used
for children are springing up.
English skills are one of the most important abilities to learn in this world. The younger you could start to learn, the more advantages you could get. And our society is in abundant in such resources.
OUTLINETitle: Young English Learnersparagraph 1:Introduction- Give necessary back ground material. Also include the thesis statement andsubtopics at the end of paragraph 1 It's better to learn English as young as possible. It would be analyzedthe trend of English studying situation.
Paragraph 2 The motivation of learning English the nation policy all parents' worrying Paragraph3 Timing expert theory research Paragraph 4 Methods the cram school and tutor public media

Young English Learners
Now a day, more and more parents require kindergarten to open English learning course. They hope their children can learn English as young as possible because they believe this will make their children having distinguished results of learning English. At present, there’re 65% of kindergarten principles supporting this idea. Furthermore, there’re over 60% of kindergartens teaching English now. In following, we will analyze the trend of English studying situation in Taiwan.

Why should children learn English? According to the information from National Children Education Information Website, Executive Yuan decided to create English living environment as one of the important policy in the following six years. Thus, the learning age of English is getting younger and younger. This results some children who never study alphabets of feeling frustrated and difficult to catch up with their classmates. This causes parents’ extremely anxiety that their children may leave behind from the others if their children don’t learn English while they are still kids.

When is the best time for children to learn English? The linguist, Eric Leeneberg submitted “the ability to learn a native language develops with a fixed period, from birth to puberty”. The research also discovered that “young children who are exposed to more than one language before the age of puberty seem to acquire all the language equally well. It should be reasonable to make children learn their second language before this critical age”. And thus, it gives most of the people a concept that it is more effective to learn a new language for a child then an adult.

Due to above reasons, plenty of material and courses are especially designed for children springing up rapidly. It’s generally saw that many English cram schools are set near elementary schools or kindergartens. In some elementary school, English has been included as a main subject. Some parents are rich enough to hire a tutor, some English teaching programs can bee seen on cable TV, some publishers launch audio or computer software, all these elements are also contributed to construct well studying atmosphere of English learning.

For parents, they hope their children can build a certain degree of English ability in order to be compatible with others from allover the world. As for the government, it is also an important step to build the image of internationalized Taiwan. No matter to the parents or the government, all their thoughts are focusing to one same purpose – expecting our children have better future. And the first step is having well prepared tool, by improving and cultivating children’s English skills as young as they could be.
Work Cited

1. Sprague, Jonathan,
JULY-30-1999 VOL. 25 NO. 30 , “ Mine Your Language!” The Copyright 2001 Asiaweek. Retrieved (no date).
<http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/99/0730/cover1.htm>

2. Wen-Yue, Lu, Apr-24-2003 ,“Should Kindergarten Teach English” The Copyright
2002 ECE . Retrieved (no date)
<http://www.ece.edu.tw/modules/news2/article.php?storyid=176>

楊 馨 ＃5 Jasmine
鄒安鵬 ＃7 Victor
National Central University
Time : 00064-Th 9:00~11:50
Presentation-10/8/2003

The issue in education that interests us is the problem about tuition. This issue was discussed by many people three months ago. We don’t know the increasing tuition is right or not. So we decided to find out what is the truth. Are we students victims or beneficiaries? We searched for our information by the internet、newspaper and the text book.

Outline:
Introduction-paragraph1
Whether the tuition should go upward or not? (Topic sentence)
If it rises, what problems will be followed?
1. The poor can’t afford it.
2. The liquidity of the social stratum.
How can we face these problems?
1. The beneficiaries. (Subtopic sentence 1)
2. Social stratum. (Subtopic sentence 2)
3. Tuition liberalization. (Subtopic sentence 3)
Paragraph 2
Topic sentence: Who benefit from the education should pay by themselves for satisfying social justice.
Bridge: The quantity of the colleges increased rapidly in recent years.
Example1: The tax rate in Taiwan.
Example2: The solution for the poor by the government.
Restatement: People who have the use of education should pay it.
Paragraph 3
Topic sentence: The graduates mismatch the structure of the society.
Bridge: Students can’t study for the purpose of application.
Example1: A waste of educational resources.
Example2: The phenomenon in Taiwan.
Restatement: higher tuition can ease the problem of the social stratum.

Paragraph 4
Topic sentence: Tuition liberalization can cause all the colleges compete with each other.
Bridge: The tuition won’t be too high if the government stopped regulating it.
Example1: Outstanding universities.
Example2: Competition will lead to a reasonable tuition.
Restatement: The competition between colleges will lead to a reasonable tuition.
Conclusion-paragraph 5
We agree with tuition liberalization. (Topic sentence)

An Issue about Tuition
An issue, whether the tuition should go upward or not, was frequently discussed by many people several months ago. This is a great concern to many people who are college students、students’ parents、educators、politicians, etc. The main reason they worry about is that higher tuition makes some people, especially for low-income family’s children, unable to go to college, even they have the qualification. Another reason is that higher tuition may obstruct the liquidity of the social stratum. How can we deal with this problem in the right way? We can understand this event in three aspects：Who benefits from the education? What is the social structure now? What if letting the tuition go free?
Who benefit from the education should pay by themselves in order to satisfy the social justice. Due to the amount of colleges increase rapidly in recent years, the funds for education became not enough and many colleges seem unable to make ends meet. So these colleges must increase tuition from students for keeping running the school. It is unfair if they take the money from the government’s tax revenue imposing on all the people. In addition, the tax rate in Taiwan is only 17 percentage which is lower than other countries like Europe having the tax rate of almost 40 percentage. The college education is not compulsory education in Taiwan. Therefore, people who have the use of education should pay it. But how can the poor do? The government will help them by many ways like scholarships or loans for education. Compare with the funds for all colleges, this part of money is much less.
The graduates mismatch the structure of the society. They can’t put into practice what has been learned. This phenomenon results in a waste of educational resources. In Taiwan, more and more masters and doctors became taxi drivers or cleaners after they graduated. Obviously, the waste will become more critical if the tuition don’t rise. People who really want to enter college can accept the higher tuition. Hence, higher tuition can ease the problem of the social stratum.
The tuition liberalization can cause all the colleges compete with each other. Besides, the tuition won’t be too high if the government stop regulating it. The outcome of liberalization is that some outstanding universities like Harvard in U.S. will come into being. Consequently, we don’t have to worry about the extent of the rising tuition. The competition between colleges will lead to a reasonable tuition or they’ll enroll inadequate students.
According to these reasons: fulfilling social justice、 matching social structure and letting the market mechanism to operate free, we agree with that tuition should go free by itself. We believe that tuition liberalization can improve the quality of education. Finally, the welfare of the whole society will promote indirectly.