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COMPARISON OF 4TH TIER VOCATIONAL COLLEGE, 3RD TIER COLLEGE, 2ND TIER UNIVERSITY, 1ST TIER UNIVERSITY AND IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY

HOLISTIC ENGLISH PERCEIVED BENEFITS

The seed of discontent with China’s current English teaching pedagogy and methodology was planted in April 2002 at a Joint Venture Business Institute at the fourth tier Railroad College in [...]

WEANING

WEANING

Every baby is eventually weaned off its mother’s milk. Otherwise, the milk become a dependency that inhibits proper growth and development.

Chinese students of English must also be weaned off of English subtitles for English movies or they will never properly develop their complete set of English skills.

In Holistic English Sections I and II this weaning [...]

MAKE A NEW FRIEND

MAKE A NEW FRIEND

Seek and locate a foreign student (L2 English speaker). Engage in a lengthy English discussion with them or engage in an activity such as eating a meal, shopping etc.

Write a summary of your encounter in WORD. Make all corrections in WORD. Post your experience on my web site.

Post your experience below before [...]

Who?

Can you identify these people?

WHO IS MISSING?

MUTE ENGLISH

Professor Martin Wolff

I have often said that when a teacher stops learning, they should stop teaching. I want to thank my SYSU Fall 2009 post grad students  for introducing me to a new term, “MUTE ENGLISH.” I had never heard this before and it has piqued my interest. A Google search revealed many student comments [...]

The Four Great Lies

INTRODUCTION

At any given moment there are twice as many Chinese learning English as there are citizens of the U.S.A. English instruction begins in kindergarten and continues into postgraduate study, for both English majors and non-English majors. Everyone in China must study English. Local variants of English such as Chinglish and Chinese English are [...]

IRON AND SILK

Watch the movie Iron and Silk on the SYSU intranet.

China is always changing but China never changes.

Front Stage culture changes rapidly.  Back Stage cultures changes at a snail’s pace.

Identify the changes in TEFL since Mark Salzman taught in China and identify those things that have not changed.

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LF visits XS

The LangFang gang met at XiaSha  to discuss a new Meet Point in XiaSha.

Jolland Lau, Roland Lau, Simon and Miriam along with a Langfang student, Jessica, came to XiaSha on January 18 to meet with Professor Martin, Professor Monica, and Professor Hamia of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University to scope out the location for another Meet Point [...]

What Students are Saying

STUDENTS OF HOLISTIC ENGLISH ARE WELCOME TO POST AFTER YOUR FINAL EXAM IS FINISHED AND NOT BEFORE.

Xinyang Agricultural College

“Our new spoken classroom at the school 2-302. It’s different from other classroom. New Oral indeed different from the previous classroom, very English atmosphere. We like it.” Venus Class: 06-business 1 NO: 067013119

“First I am very appreciate [...]

Oral English Classrooms

Oral English Classrooms

The course is called Oral English. It is usually conducted in a multi-media classroom with theater style fixed seating. Students are called upon to stand and recite memorized passages. This course should be called “Memorizing Useless Set Phrases.”

The course should be re-named “Conversational Chinglish” and it should be conducted in classrooms with movable [...]