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CHINA JOBS

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 [...]

60 AGE LIMIT

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

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 3 – 6 months.
Chinese who [...]

China Movies

Eat a Bowl of Tea
Farewell My Concubine
Great Wall
Iron and Silk
Joy Luck Club
Sand Pebbles
Shanghai Express
Shanghai Lady
Shanghai Noon
Tai Pan
The Last Emperor
White Countess

OF THE STUDENTS, BY THE STUDENTS AND FOR THE STUDENTS

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

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 [...]

STANDARD ENGLISH

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

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 Movies

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 Movies

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