Comments

#&%$@ GRRR –

I AM SO #@&%$ ANGRY!  – – AND YOU SHOULD BE TOO

CONCLUSION

A Sun Yat-sen administrator ( not in the English teaching department) disregards students’ opinions and does not disguise his contempt for those he is supposed to serve:

“You mean you believe in their moody frustration in learning (yes, learning) English? [...]

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.

First Day Student Culture Shock

The beginning of any new academic semester is fraught with inevitable required adjustments. The post-graduate students (pgs) are no exception. They are required to take one semester of oral English with a foreign teacher. Most pgs have had prior undergraduate experiences with this inconsequential course where the grade does [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]