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MYSTERY

ENGLISH TODAY, DECEMBER 2010, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS pg. 53 China’s English mystery – the views of a China ‘foreign expert’

MARTIN WOLFF

A hard-hitting opinion piece from an English teacher in China

Introduction

The mysteries of exotic China arise not only from its voluntary isolation from the modern world during some of the most formative [...]

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?

’10 MUTE ENGLISH

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 about MUTE [...]

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. [...]