On the one hand China admits the need to produce students with creative thinking skills. On the other hand, China suggests the need for more thought control over students. These two positions are not reconcilable. One is academic, the other is anti-intellectual. One promotes academic freedom while the other stifles academic freedom. One promotes free [...]
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Who would argue that a 2nd language student possessing confidence, intrinsic motivation, self- discipline, autonomous learning skills and creative thinking ability, would not excel over students lacking in such psychological attributes? Yet, Chinese college and university students arrive on the school’s doorstep almost completely lacking in any appreciable development in any of these areas, even post-graduate [...] Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. For more than the past 30 years, ESP (English for Special Purpose) has been taught in China to pass exams, College Entrance exam, TEM and CET. The entire English pedagogy and methodology, from primary school through college or university, [...] The teaching of English in China is mired in many fallacies. One of them is that if someone can speak English they can teach English. This demeans and diminishes the teaching profession and leads to abuses in the foreign teacher recruitment process. In 1978, when China first opened its door to the outside world, China recruited [...] All of China’s Universities and colleges publish an in-house journal. They are all published in Chinese. Even China’s three most famous foreign language universities publish exclusively in Chinese. The Beijing Foreign Studies University, Shanghai Foreign Studies University and the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies refuse any article written in English. (There may be the occasional [...] 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 [...] Holistic English has been taught to its youngest ever student. Violet is 5 weeks from delivery and for the past 18 weeks she and her unborn baby have attended HE class every week. I am so confident in HE, I am betting that her baby is going to be born bilingual. Any betters in the crowd? The U.S. Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group. The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, The University of [...] LEARN TO SWIM Throw a baby in the water. Watch them struggle to get to the surface. Watch them struggle to stay on the surface. Watch them figure out how to stay on the surface without struggling. No baby drowns. That is how we teach a baby to swim in the west. You have been thrown [...] Psycholinguists (as opposed to psychos who happen to be linguists) are linguists or psychologists who study how the brain functions with respect to language intake, storage, access and output. At this time I will deal only with one aspect of output and that is “Prompting the Mental Lexicon.” Some computers are equipped with both Chinese and English [...] |
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