From July 15^th to 16^th, School/Hospital of Stomatology of Lanzhou University held a two-day course, "New Vision, New World" on internationalization for first-year students, focusing on English language training with a combination of different cultural backgrounds. It aimed to broaden students' international vision, improve English communication skills, and build up a basic system for training internationalized talents.

 The lecturers of this training class were all well-known foreign teachers of Lanzhou University. In addition to discussing how to learn English, the teachers also shared their own life experiences in the course. Various forms such as scene designs, topic discussions, and free questionings were adopted to guide students to participate and speak actively.

Stephen Robertson has obtained a master's degree in Teaching Chinese as a foreign language from Lanzhou University and has many years of experience in English teaching. The name of his class was "English, More Than Just A Few Grammar Rules". He’s good at creating an air of relaxing and comfortable learning in class, spurring students' initiative, stimulating students' interest, to make students truly enjoy the process of study.

Anthony Que, one "Internet Celebrity" of Lanzhou University, used to be the director of the intensive care unit at the largest hospital in Miami, USA, and also a member of Doctors Without Borders who has had participated health services in 102 countries. Anthony has a rich experience of teaching TOEFL, English-public-speaking and medical English. He named his class as "From Miami to Lanzhou", which was sharing his "Adventure" of flying from the USA to Lanzhou in the early stage of Covid-19 outbreak. After class, the students kept asking him all kinds of questions.

Razvan Andrei's class named "Risk Taking. A new perspective". Andy has been an archaeologist, cave explorer, and business manager. He is proficient in five languages and has been teaching Western culture and English at Lanzhou University for seven consecutive years. Andy was able to not only stimulate students' desire to explore new knowledge and new world, but also eliminate students' fears in language study and help them building up confidence in future studies.

After the training, Mrs. Lei Zhao, the host of the course, expressed sincere gratitude to the teachers and passed three messages to the students. Firstly, draw the learned methods and skills and apply to the language study. Secondly, try to avoid "Dumb English", enhance self-confidence, speak it out boldly, and let English truly become an effective learning tool and a window of a new world. Thirdly, we should constantly broaden our horizons and cultivate a sense of exploration.

During this training, the students listened carefully and spoke actively, and the atmosphere was very active in class and after. The students agreed that Lanzhou University has a very good environment for foreign language learning and international exchanges, and the teachers' courses are also lively and interesting, what has been learned in the class can be used in daily life and benefits themselves a lot. At the same time, they also expressed their willingness to actively participate in the international exchange programs and lay a good foundation in foreign languages, so that they could enter a new world by expanding their own horizons, as well as add luster to Lanzhou University.