Speech Test Contest

May 16, 2023 | ELC Activity

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The English Language Lab is pleased to announce that its first Speech Test Contest will be held from October 12 to December 18. All WKU students are eligible to participate.

The Speech Test is an embedded diagnostic test in Pronunciation Power, a learning platform in the ELL. After taking this test, the users will know their pronunciation strengths and weaknesses, which enables them to focus on the sounds they need to improve the most.

Rules

  • Participants need to book an ELL practice session.

(To reserve a seat in the ELL, please go to www.wku.edu.cn>MyWKU>ELC>STUDENT APPOINTMENTS>search activity, and click on the Register button. Then, type in your cellphone number and email address in the Remark, and click on Save.)

  1. Participants should go to the ELL and complete a Speech Test.
  2. Participants print the test results whose photocopy should be given to the student assistant on duty.
  3. E
    very Monday, in descending order of the test score, the ELL will pick the weekly top 3 and announce the result on ELC’s WeChat platform. There could be two weekly winners, but if there are more than two, a playoff should ensue.
  4. The weekly winner scoring the highest in a calendar month will be the monthly winner. Should there be two or more monthly winners, a playoff would ensue. At the beginning of each month, the ELL will announce the result on ELC’s WeChat platform.
  5. The monthly winner with the highest score will be the Winner of the Semester. In December, the ELL will announce the result on ELC’s Wechat platform.
  6. A contestant can bea weekly/monthly winnerrepeatedly, but he/she cannot win the prizes of the same title twice.

 

Prizes

Weekly Top 3: Membership of the EnglishCentral (valid till August 2021)

Weekly Winner: Books on vocabulary building (around RMB 100 Yuan)

Monthly Winner: Books on TOEFL or IELTS (around RMB 300 Yuan)

Winner of the Semester: Certificate of award

 

For further information about the contest, please contact Junior at hejun@wku.edu.cn, call 0577-55870074, or drop by our office at GEH B301.