Comments

Who?

Can you identify these people?

WHO IS MISSING?

What Students are Saying

STUDENTS OF HOLISTIC ENGLISH ARE WELCOME TO POST AFTER YOUR FINAL EXAM IS FINISHED AND NOT BEFORE.

Xinyang Agricultural College

“Our new spoken classroom at the school 2-302. It’s different from other classroom. New Oral indeed different from the previous classroom, very English atmosphere. We like it.” Venus Class: 06-business 1 NO: 067013119

“First I am very appreciate [...]

TEACH WITH MOVIES

Teach With Movies

China uses movies to teach English. Well, almost. Universities throughout China use movie clips shown in the classroom during class time. The short clips are repeated over and over again, ad nauseum, until the students have memorized certain chunks of language. Yes, movie clips are used for language learning cum memorization. Students routinely [...]

Holistic English at LangFang Higher Education Park

Holistic English at LangFang Higher Education Park      Christmas 2010

The Upper Room (in the basement) at LangFang Higher Education Park offers Holistic English as part of its holistic business model. The Upper Room is a Christian restaurant, book store and gift shop. The entire business premises is a friendly English speaking environment.  See main page [...]

HE sucks?

Holistic English  sucks?

Jessica zstu 4 November 21st, 2010 at 7:25 pm

I want to find a job in Qingdao city in future.There are a lot of foreign-invested ventures there,so I will use English in the future.And English is also a language,which is my favorite.But I am not high and motivated in the class because I don’t [...]

HOLISTIC APPROACH EXPANDED

UPDATE November 5, 2010:

Martin,
 
Ashley confirmed the information with me today. You will continue to teach all the 8 postgrads’ classes next term. We asked you to give Gerry one class because we planned not to open any optional classes next term-there are 7 these term, and with Guy leaving we will have just enough foreign teachers [...]

GOALS

Holistic English Goals

In the Holistic English Program we do NOT teach English language or English culture.

We facilitate English communication at whatever level the students find themselves capable. There is no individual mandatory accomplishment level to be obtained. In other words, the academic pressure is completely off.

The goals of Holistic English, in their order of priority [...]

POLICY

This web site is hosted on a server in the USA. The owner is an American citizen who has lived and worked in China for the past 8 years.

This is a non-profit educational website that is utilized in the Holistic English teaching program. Its purpose is to provide Chinese university students with a vehicle to [...]

'10 English Movies

FREE CHOICE ENGLISH MOVIE LIBRARY

 

To facilitate autonomous learning strategies, the Sun Yat-sen University department of post-graduate English teaching for non-English majors has created an English movie library. All of the movies are English language with English or no subtitles. (There are absolutely no Chinese subtitles because they hinder English acquisition.)
The movies [...]

ABC for a DAY

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 [...]