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TWO BRIDGES – TWO CULTURES

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS A CROSS-CULTURAL LESSON,

NOT AN ATTACK ON CHINESE CULTURE. READ CAREFULLY

TWO BRIDGES – TWO CULTURES

This is a story of two bridges on opposite sides of the world, one in China, one in California It is also a story of [...]

EMERGENCY

If you sent an email using a Chinese account with yeah.com, 126.com or 163.com you need to send an email using an English email account. Use gmail, hotmail, yahoo etc. Do not use Chinese account.

Send Province and undergraduate school informatiuon again.

All emails to the above are being rejected by your Chinese servers as spam. 

PLEASE TELL YOUR CLASSMATES [...]

WRITING VS. SPEAKING

WRITING  VS. SPEAKING

Written English and spoken English are different.

Written English is formal and spoken English is informal.

Memorizing set phrases or other written English is useless in daily conversation.

“So-So” is NO-NO

“So-So” is NO-NO

China is a developing country and will remain a developing country so long as the national standard (excuse) for poor services and poor products is “This is China, so-so is ok.”

From sales clerks in department stores,  to policemen on the street,  to medical staff in the best hospitals, service is extremely poor, the [...]

ENGLISH 24/7

EAT, SLEEP, DRINK AND EVEN DREAM IN ENGLISH

 

English is not a subject you study a couple of hours a week…
It is something you live 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

 

There is no English speaking environment in China and no university makes even the slightest attempt to create one for their English majors let [...]

I’m NOT Lovin it!

I’m NOT Lovin it!

I am a post-graduate non-English major at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

I am required to study English for one more semester. I do not want to study English. I am only doing it because it is required by the university. I will never need to use English after I graduate. I rarely [...]

CONSUMER POLL

STUDENT/CONSUMER  SATISFACTION  SURVEY

HOLISTIC ENGLISH vs. TRADITIONAL ORAL ENGLISH

 

STACY MEEKING

Guangxi University

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 most innovative, progressive [...]

PLAGIARISM

STUDENTS’ LACK OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AWARENESS

Martin Wolff

Sun Yat-sen University

INTRODUCTION

Intellectual Property Protection remains a hot topic in China. The west applies constant pressure on China for more enforcement and China responds with increased enrollment in law schools, retention of more prosecutors and an annual increase of prosecutions [...]

Best IP Protection

Best IP  Protection is Through Education, Not More Enforcement Actions
Introduction

It is beyond dispute that China has some of the most comprehensive and up-to-date Intellectual Property (IP) protection laws of any country in the modern world, in conformance with its accession to the Berne Convention and the Geneva Convention.1 This is a direct result of China’s [...]

QUESTIONS

Can you answer any of the questions?

EFL/ESL Teaching in China: Questions – Questions – Questions

This article raises numerous fundamental issues which appear to have been overlooked by China in its exuberance to embrace EFL/ESL teaching as China rushes to join the new world order and partake of its share of the global economic pie. This article [...]