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WHY?

5% of the post-grad non-English majors have no interest in taking further English courses.

20% of the post-grad Business Majors do not believe English is important for their future.

26% of the post-grad science majors are actively advised by their Chinese science major teachers to ignore the requirements of the English courses and concentrate on [...]

QUESTIONS

QUESTION:  If CET 6 is an adequate English foundation; why are the HE movies so difficult for you?   QUESTION:  If CET 6 is an adequate English foundation; why does the National government require you to take more English classes?   QUESTION:  If you can’t understand the HE movies; how will you understand English journals [...]

ESE at ZSTU

The creation of an English Speaking Environment is critical for 2nd language acquisition. Language acquisition occurs when their is comprehensible input in a friendly environment.  Language acquisition occurs when there is language and cultural immersion.  The following articles shed more light on creating an ESE:

China EFL: Why Chinese Universities do not Provide an English Speaking [...]

WALK THE LINE

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.

What did the man in black teach you?

RETIRE

Maybe it is time to seriously think about retiring.

For the past 9 years I have tried my best to not only assist my students in improving their English, I have attempted to lead university administrators toward creating an English speaking environment.

No matter what I do, they just refuse to get it. No matter [...]

NOT WITHOUT

Western conflicts with Muslim culture. An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

What did you learn from this cross-cultural story?

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 [...]