西安阿斯顿——李丽

李丽致感谢词并接受西安当地媒体采访

西安阿斯顿英语为李丽发放千元奖学金

获得美国大学录取通知的同时李丽还收到了上海外国语大学的录取通知书

李丽     Evangeline

年龄：17岁                         Age ：17

级别：C14                          Level ：C14

学校：西安阿斯顿                   Location：Xian Aston

学习时间：6年                      Time with Aston：6 years

个人荣誉：                     Achievment：

2005年                         2005

西安阿斯顿口语大赛的第一名       Xian Aston Oral English Competition First Prize

2007年                         2007

美国卫斯里安大学录取            Illinois Wesleyan University

以及全额奖学金                  and full scholarship

学员感言——

大家好我是李丽。我是一名阿斯顿的老学员了，在这已经学习了六年了。在我从一个因为考试不到75分而要抄写卷子的小学生到一名即将踏入美国大学的高中毕业生,这个成长过程中，阿斯顿扮演了很重要的角色。

从阿斯顿英语在西安建校开始的时候我就开始来这里上课了。从C5到C14，我的英语能力逐渐提高，并且在与外教们的沟通中建立了更好的自信。学完C14之后，我参加了普林斯顿评论的词汇，语法，阅读，写作，口语五项课程，并且取得了很大的进步。之后我又参加了阿斯顿的雅思培训，从而让我的英语达到一个国际交流水平。

在阿斯顿学英语很快乐。我觉得我很幸运，能拥有如此多的优秀老师们，尽管他们来自不同的国家，有不同的教学方法，他们都很智慧并且负责任。这些老师不仅仅教给我英语，也教给我了一种去探索更大世界的思考方式。我仍然能够想起我的一个现在仍然保持联系的外教Pat,也就是我的普林斯顿老师，他在阅读课上给我们讲各国丰富的文化常识和历史知识，在口语课给我们介绍演讲时他那神似马丁.路德金的表演叫我很难忘记。

在2005年，我获得了西安阿斯顿口语大赛的第一名，赢得了去美国奥斯丁分校两周夏令营的机会。这次旅行的点点滴滴以及我之前从书本和外教处获得的许多信息点燃了我心里想要去美国读大学的梦想，并且这个梦想再也没有被放弃。2007年我参加了托福和SAT的考试并且申请了美国的大学。我被其中的6所大学录取，但我最终选择了位于美国伊利诺伊洲的卫斯里安大学，因为它为我提供了每年33，000美元的全额奖学金。这所大学是全美最好的文理学院之一，培养的许多学者，艺术家，企业家和政治家活跃在世界的各个领域。

从我的观点来看，学英语不是一个很难的事情。根据我的经验我给出以下的一些建议：首先，也是最重要的，就是我们要把英语看作是一门语言，而不是学问。英语就像中文一样，是我们学来说的，而不是做科学研究的。有了这个认识以后，我们就能认识到学英语最好的方法是说和听，而不是死记硬背语法和词汇。第二，如果你真的想要提高你的英语水平，就不要怕犯错误。只有犯错误你才能发现自己的问题，进而改正。第三就是单词记忆的问题。我的建议是每天都能随机记住几个单词，积少成多，单词量会迅速增加。

这就是我，一个平凡但是努力上进的我。加油吧！我的学弟学妹们！美好的未来就把握在自己的手中！ 

Voice——

Hi, my name is Evangeline. I'm a locol astonian and have been studying at Aston for over 6 years. From a little girl who always needed to copy the exam paper three times because of her English test score below 75 to a young lady ready to go to USA for college, Aston played the important role of transforming me.

I came to Aston as soon as it opened in Xi'an. From C5 to C14, slowly I became a good English speaker and a more confident teenager. After C14, I took Princeton Review lessons-Vocab, Grammar, Reading, Writting, Eloquence. In these five lessons I learnt more advanced English and made great progress. Later on I took Aston IELTS classes to improve my English level to an international standard.

Studying at Aston was great fun. I think I was really lucky to have so many excellent teachers, who though came from different countries and had different teaching styles but were all very responsible and wise. These teachers taught me not only English, but also a way of thinking, a way to discover what's it like in the rest of the world. I still remember our Princeton Review teacher, Patrick Miller, who now I'm still in touch with, gaving us so many knowledge about culture and history in reading class, performing as if he was the Martin Luther King when introducing us how to make a speech. 

In 2005, I won the first prize in Xi'an Aston Oral English Competition. The prize for me was a two-week summer camp in Austin, America. During the trip we first visited Austin, Texas. There we spent 10 happy days visiting museums and farms, parks and seaworld. Every afternoon, we had two hours of interesting English class at Ausin Aston school. During the class we learnt about the history and the diverse culture of America through various games and plays. Later we visited Disneyland in California and that was absolutely the dreamland! This trip, as well as much information I got from books or foreign teachers, light up the fire inside me. From then on I the dream of going to USA for college never die. In 2007, I took TOEFL and SAT tests and applied American universities. I was admitted by 6 universities and I chose Illinois Wesleyan University, which is located in Illinois state because it offered me scholarship of 33,000 dollars per year and 132,000 dollars for all four years. This college is one of the best liberal art colleges in America and has produced many great scholars,artists,businessmen and politicians now famous in different fields all over the world..

Studying English, from my point of view, is not a hard work. From my experience, I have the following advice. First, and the most important, is that one has to regard English as a LANGUAGE, NOT knowledge. English is like Chinese, something we learn for speaking, not for scientific study. With this bear in mind, one will realize that the best way to learn English is to speak and listen to it, not memorizing stiff grammar or vocabulary. Besides, if you really want to improve English, you should not fear of making mistakes. Only by making mistakes can you realize that you are wrong and can correct it. Another is about remembering words. My suggestion is that one should remember 2 or 3 words daily and gradually his vocabulary will increase dramatically.

So, this is me, a common but strong-willed me. Come on my friends, a brighter future can be  earned by our own hardworking.