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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 [...] UNREACHABLE AND UNTEACHABLE STUDENTS Every Chinese college and university has them, from top tier down to the bottom 4th tier.Usually every class has at least one and the unlucky teacher may be saddled with several. Occasionally, an entire class may be beyond reach. No matter what the pedagogy, the methodology, the materials; there [...]
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This semester the academic pressure was completely off. No extrinsic motivation was applied to any student. It was made very clear that every student with a perfect attendance record would receive at least a passing mark of 60, even if they never participated in any homework assignment or [...] MOTIVATIONAL Blackboard Jungle Coach Carter Great Debaters Gridiron Gang Lean on Me To Sir With Love 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. [...] |
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