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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 [...] Professor Martin Wolff I have often said that when a teacher stops learning, they should stop teaching. I want to thank my SYSU Fall 2009 post grad students for introducing me to a new term, “MUTE ENGLISH.” I had never heard this before and it has piqued my interest. A Google search revealed many student comments [...] Watch the movie Iron and Silk on the SYSU intranet. China is always changing but China never changes. Front Stage culture changes rapidly. Back Stage cultures changes at a snail’s pace. Identify the changes in TEFL since Mark Salzman taught in China and identify those things that have not changed. Post your comments.
MERRY CHRISTMAS December 25, 2009 THE REAL STORY OF CHRISTMAS http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm Jesus is a Jew and if you wish to know more about Jewish Culture and history, the SYSU intranet has the following movies: http://engedu.sysu.edu.cn/graduate/film.asp?typeid=12 The Ten Commandments Ben Hur The King of [...] UPDATE July 25, 2010 Foreign English teachers who want to teach in a Chinese University, now is the time to send electronic resumes. University Foreign Affairs Offices that are understaffed and overburdened are just now finishing repatriation of last year’s foreign teachers. Now they have time to recruit foreign teachers for September 2010. Of course these are [...] 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 INTRODUCTION At any given moment there are twice as many Chinese learning English as there are citizens of the U.S.A. English instruction begins in kindergarten and continues into postgraduate study, for both English majors and non-English majors. Everyone in China must study English. Local variants of English such as Chinglish and Chinese English are discouraged as [...] English Corner MY ENGLISH CORNER EXPERIENCE Also: go to the download page and read the free article China EFL: English Corner Over the years I have attended enough English Corers to know that it is better to avoid them like you would avoid SARS, they make me sick. Many foreign teachers have no choice; it is written in their [...] Although I am Chinese, born, raised and educated in China, for one day I did role play and pretended that I was an ABC (American Born Chinese) on vaction in China and I only speak ENGLISH. This is my story. After the classroom discussion of the movie “The Terminal,” select one day of the next week [...] |
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