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TEACHING IN CHINA Teaching in China can be highly rewarding or it can be the teaching job from HELL! Do your research before accepting any job. Do not go through a recruiter, deal directly with your future employer. Government schools and universities are the best first China job. Stay away from Chinese owned schools. Read: China ESL: An [...] June 26, 2010 There is great confusion amongst foreigners about the Chinese age limitation of 60 for foreign teachers to receive a Foreign Expert Certificate (FEC), a legal prerequisite to employment in China. This confusion has recently been exacerbated by an erroneous report in the Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2009/12/foreign-teachers-in-china-who-are-not-too/31163/ http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2009/12/updates-mullen-obama-in-us-old-fat-in-china/31215/ http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2009/12/more-on-the-ousted-foreign-teachers-in-china/31268/ It is true that China has a National SAFEA advisory that [...] 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. Eat a Bowl of Tea Book Description: This book is a unique running dialogue between professor and post-graduate students at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou China. A mutual exploration of English teaching in China and both the causes of its general failure and suggested remedies. OF THE STUDENTS, BY THE STUDENTS AND FOR THE STUDENTS Martin Wolff, Editor, CONTRIBUTORS: 2,600 post-graduate students at Sun Yat-sen [...] 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 into [...] 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 English. The Chinese [...] Teacher Evaluations Course and teacher evaluations by students have their limitations. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/deep-in-the-heart-of-texas/ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/student-evaluations-part-two/ As one poster opined, Phil Los Angeles June 29th, 2010 7:13 pm Students can’t tell what ought to be in a course. Asking them to comment on content is wrong. Students do have something (not everything) to say about whether the professor is getting the material across. They should be [...] LAW Inherit The Wind 12 Angry Men Erin Brockovitch Enron Disclosure Life and Debt McLibel The Corporation North Country The Firm The Insider Paper Chase Working Girl MARKETING Rainmaker Thank You For Not Smoking The Constant Gardner Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low Price McLibel Jerry Maguire (sports marketing) Ted Koppel documentary on China-US trade Thank You For Smoking |
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