English translation: study monitor/commissary in charge of studies (PRC)
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Chinese term or phrase:
学习委员(PRC)
English translation:
study monitor/commissary in charge of studies (PRC)
Chinese to English translations [PRO] Education / Pedagogy / school life
Chinese term or phrase:学习委员
Hi,
This term is used in a high school context.
I've looked it up online for its English equivalent, and I found translations like "study monitor," "study commissar" and "commissary in charge of studies."
"Study commissar" sounds better to me than the other two. "Study monitor" conjures up an image of a computer screen in my mind. "Commissary in charge of studies" is too long for a title.
Besides "study commissar," I was wondering if "teaching assistant" would be easier to understand in this context, an application letter to a graduate program. Your comments would be highly appreciated.
Your "Study Commissar" is good enough based on China mainland, as your term is in simplified Chinese. However, according existing terminology and my own educational experience in China, I prefer to say study monitor or better commissary (better than 'commissar' which is more political and ancient than in sense of representative). If necessary, commissary in charge of sutdies would be perfect and match well the context.
Hope this helps, and see follows for your ref.:
学习委员
commissary in charge of studies
commissary in charge of studies 学习委员 commissary in charge of entertaainment content.chinahr.com
study monitor
student leader 班长 monitor 学习委员 study monitor 体育委员 student in charge of bbs.dict.cn
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Please see more information in Chinese:
commissary in charge of studies 学校班委会成员之一，负责班级学习方面的工作学习委员职责： 1. 召开课代表会议，了解各学科学习情况，及时向任课教师反映；同时将教师有关要求带给同学，师生共同提高教学质量。 2. 注意发现同学中确有实效的学习方法，帮助同学进行总结。组织交流，不断提高全班同学的学习积极性。 3. 主动关心学习有困难的同学，开展互帮互学活动。 4. 做好单元测验和考试的成绩统计工作，对成绩优秀者以适当形式进行表扬、鼓励,并鼓励差生，指导他们良好的学习习惯。５.填写教室日志（有些学校可能没有）． 6.有较优秀的学习成绩给同学们一个表率的作用，带动同学上课时的积极性，调整班风。 See more
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Thank you for your detailed context, Amtbglo. That's just what I am sticking to, 学习委员 is only employed in Mainland China, referred to a student in charge of study affairs, and often with excellent school results...
It's about a college student in Mainland China. I'm sorry I was wrong at first by saying this term is used in high school context. I just realized that the context is college instead.
Seems to me that in Mainland China student leaders are often given titles like xx委员. Sounds very official to me as a Taiwanese. In Taiwan we have such student leaders in a class as 班長 (class president), 學藝股長, 風紀股長. Don't know how to translate the other two. So xx委员 is unique to Mainland China.
I don't really know what it's like in Mainland China but I think what Adsion Liu found out about 学习委员 is true.
more context might be helpful. which jurisdiction? (eg is it a Taiwan term/concept) 委员 -> name of committee? is it 学习委员会 Board of Studies. Can you share any links. 上下文？ 语境？
The term "study monitor" usually refers to a person who oversees the progress of a clinical study.
The job of a monitor in secondary or high schools is generally to collect homework assignments from fellow students, report any late return of assignments to a teacher, coordinate team projects if there is a team project to be completed for a certain academic subject, and others.
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study team leader
Explanation: I think this term in Chinese means the person who is in charge of the coordinations between the teacher and the students for the certain subject in the class. So it is better to call him or her a leader than a commissar, which is very formal word in an organization or a party.
Lihua Yu Australia Local time: 15:23 Native speaker of: Chinese
5 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
study monitor/commissary in charge of studies
Explanation: Hello,
Your "Study Commissar" is good enough based on China mainland, as your term is in simplified Chinese. However, according existing terminology and my own educational experience in China, I prefer to say study monitor or better commissary (better than 'commissar' which is more political and ancient than in sense of representative). If necessary, commissary in charge of sutdies would be perfect and match well the context.
Hope this helps, and see follows for your ref.:
学习委员
commissary in charge of studies
commissary in charge of studies 学习委员 commissary in charge of entertaainment content.chinahr.com
study monitor
student leader 班长 monitor 学习委员 study monitor 体育委员 student in charge of bbs.dict.cn
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 13 heures (2009-10-04 21:33:52 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Please see more information in Chinese:
commissary in charge of studies 学校班委会成员之一，负责班级学习方面的工作学习委员职责： 1. 召开课代表会议，了解各学科学习情况，及时向任课教师反映；同时将教师有关要求带给同学，师生共同提高教学质量。 2. 注意发现同学中确有实效的学习方法，帮助同学进行总结。组织交流，不断提高全班同学的学习积极性。 3. 主动关心学习有困难的同学，开展互帮互学活动。 4. 做好单元测验和考试的成绩统计工作，对成绩优秀者以适当形式进行表扬、鼓励,并鼓励差生，指导他们良好的学习习惯。５.填写教室日志（有些学校可能没有）． 6.有较优秀的学习成绩给同学们一个表率的作用，带动同学上课时的积极性，调整班风。 See more
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Source: Baidu Encyclopedia
Adsion Liu Canada Local time: 23:53 Works in field Native speaker of: Chinese PRO pts in category: 18
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