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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] HOLISTIC ENGLISH WRITTEN TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM Using WORD, write a 500 word essay about your experience with the Holistic English course. End the essay with your Chinese name and your English name. Post your essay on the thread “SAY WHAT?” at http://chinaholisticenglish.org The thread will open December 15 and [...] To the accusation that I am a serious teacher, I must plead guilty. I am constantly asked “WHY?” I am such a serious teacher. This is a fair question which I will endeavor to answer in a frank and open manner. The simple answer is that I am fearful for my 10 children’s future. They [...] STUDENT ATTITUDES READING A CHINESE STUDENT Chinese students are rather transparent and it is a simple matter to determine their attitude or motivational level from their body language. The students who arrive very early for class are usually highly motivated while those who just barely make it before the bell or are even [...] WEANING Every baby is eventually weaned off its mother’s milk. Otherwise, the milk become a dependency that inhibits proper growth and development. Chinese students of English must also be weaned off of English subtitles for English movies or they will never properly develop their complete set of English skills. In Holistic English Sections I and [...] |
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