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Unreachable/Unteachable

UNREACHABLE AND UNTEACHABLE STUDENTS

Every Chinese college and university has them, from top tier down to the bottom 4th tier.Usually every class has at least one and the unlucky teacher may be saddled with several. Occasionally, an entire class may be beyond reach.

No matter what the pedagogy, the methodology, the materials; there are some students who [...]

TAIWAN (Formosa)

Taiwan

When I commenced teaching business in Wuhan, China in 2002, all the new foreign teachers were subjected to an orientation by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau. We were informed that we were precluded from discussing Taiwan, Tibet or Religion with Chinese people, in or out of our classrooms. Having great respect for the rule of [...]

From Dean Xia Jimei

OF THE STUDENTS, BY THE STUDENTS, 

and

FOR THE STUDENTS

Book to be published July 2010

Foreword

It is my great honor to be invited to write this foreword for Dr Martin Wolff’s new book. To be honest, it is my first time to write a foreword [...]

HOLISTIC ENGLISH WORKBOOK

HE WORKBOOK (See the MENU above for the Workbook content)

Sun Yat-sen University Press will publish a revised Holistic English Workbook in August 2010. Contact: Xiong Xiyuan, <xiyuanx@163.com>

The revised book will combine prior Books 1, 2, 3 and 4 into one volume of 32 chapters. This will allow students to continue with their autonomous learning [...]

English Movie Library

ENGLISH MOVIE LIBRARY

http://engedu.sysu.org.cn/graduate/holistics

To facilitate autonomous learning strategies, the Sun Yat-sen University department of post-graduate English teaching for non-English majors has created an English movie library. All of the movies are English language with English or no subtitles. (There are absolutely no Chinese subtitles because they [...]

Class Mgmt.

CLASS MANAGMENT

With between 600 to 700 students each term, volunteer student assistants are recruited to assist with class management. At least one student assistant is assigned to each class. The duties of the student assistant include establishing an email directory for all members of each class. Throughout the term emails are sent to [...]

Wannabe China Teacher?

For those foreign teachers who think they want to teach English in China, I strongly advise that you read the Foreign Teachers’ Guide to Living and Teaching in China available on the website Middle Kingdom Life.

Who is Kidding Whom?

You can please some of the people all of the time.

You can please all of the people some of the time.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time.

There is no single teaching pedagogy or methodology that fits everyone in every situation.

Some of you have benefited from HE while some have not.

Some of [...]