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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 [...] Chinese vs. Foreign Teachers Chinese teachers lecture to a group, which happens to be made up of individuals. There is little or no individual eye contact and no attention paid to any individual student. There is no individualized attention paid to any student and there is no discipline administered. Students text message on their phones, [...] Teachers vs. Facilitators Teachers are the lord and master of their classroom. In many instances they are control freaks. They must be the star of their own show (classroom) and do most, if not all of the talking. Facilitators create the atmosphere and circumstances for the students to be the stars of the classroom and [...] 4 Great Truths IN THE BEGINNING We hold these truths to be self-evident: You can learn a language for a lifetime and never be able to use it for its communicative purpose. You can communicate in a language without ever learning it. Foreign students who come to China to learn Mandarin are often fluent within [...] The debate rages on – what is Standard English? There are those who advocate learning Standard British English, Standard American English or Standard International English. Linguists and language scholars have conjured up such concepts in their own minds but no such Standard English actually exists in reality. Chinese scholars admonish their students to “master” Standard [...] 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 [...]
The beginning of any new academic semester is fraught with inevitable required adjustments. The post-graduate students (pgs) are no exception. They are required to take one semester of oral English with a foreign teacher. Most pgs have had prior undergraduate experiences with this inconsequential course where the grade does [...] STUDENT/CONSUMER SATISFACTION SURVEY HOLISTIC ENGLISH vs. TRADITIONAL ORAL ENGLISH MARTIN WOLFF Sun Yat-sen University INTRODUCTION Under the leadership of Dean XIA Jimei, PhD and Vice-Dean Wang Zhe, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhongshan), Guangzhou, a top tier university, arguably has one of China’s [...] |
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