{"id":14894,"date":"2022-08-01T16:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T07:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/?p=14894"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T03:03:09","slug":"kurioka-nozomi-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/news\/2022\/08\/01\/14894\/","title":{"rendered":"CHEONG,  Zhi Yin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14896 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/P12_CHEONG-610x772.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enrolled in 2018<\/li>\n<li>Graduate of Anglo-Chinese Junior College (Singapore)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Message<\/h3>\n<h4>Developing Critical Thinking Skills through the Concentration Program<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I applied for a place at SILS because I liked how you can graduate with or without a Concentration. Before I entered university I was interested in a variety of fields, and I was not confident that I would be able to choose a Concentration in my 4 years. To my surprise, in my second semester at SILS, I realised that I enjoyed courses in Linguistics more than any other course and thus quickly enrolled in the Linguistics Concentration. SILS offers Linguistics courses in several areas, so I was able to take classes in Phonetics and Phonology, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and Syntax, but I particularly enjoyed studying Sociolinguistics- the study of the relationship between language and society. By gradually taking increasingly challenging classes in the field of Linguistics, I feel like I gained the background knowledge needed to start to think about the ideas discussed in class critically. I believe that the critical thinking skills that one can gain from completing a Concentration can be really useful even after graduation, and I thus strongly recommend the program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">This content is as of the time of issuance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/fire\/sils\/en\/applicants\/voice\/\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Singapore<br \/>Enrolled in 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[86,168,113,130],"class_list":["post-14894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-asia-en","tag-classes-en","tag-student-report-en","tag-voice-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22218,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894\/revisions\/22218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/sils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}