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SELF-DISCIPLINE

The Oral portion of the final exam was given 4 weeks early. SURPRISE!!

The questions and answers were given on the first class day of the semester. Every student wote the questions and answers in their HE Workbook. An admonishment was given that the oral final exam required attention every day for the next 18 [...]

CLASSROOMS

Oral English Classrooms

The course is called Oral English. It is usually conducted in a multi-media classroom with theater style fixed seating. Students are called upon to stand and recite memorized passages. This course should be called “Memorizing Useless Set Phrases.”

The course should be re-named “Conversational Chinglish” and it should be conducted in classrooms [...]

Chinese vs. Foreign Teachers

Chinese vs. Foreign Teachers

Chinese teachers lecture to a group, which happens to be made up of individuals. There is little or no individual eye contact and no attention paid to any individual student. There is no individualized attention paid to any student and there is no discipline administered. Students text message on their phones, [...]

Teachers vs. Facilitators

Teachers vs. Facilitators

Teachers are the lord and master of their classroom. In many instances they are control freaks. They must be the star of their own show (classroom) and do most, if not all of the talking.

Facilitators create the atmosphere and circumstances for the students to be the stars of the classroom and [...]

CONSUMER POLL

STUDENT/CONSUMER  SATISFACTION  SURVEY

HOLISTIC ENGLISH vs. TRADITIONAL ORAL ENGLISH

MARTIN WOLFF

Sun Yat-sen University

INTRODUCTION

Under the leadership of Dean XIA Jimei, PhD and Vice-Dean Wang Zhe, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhongshan), Guangzhou, a top tier university, arguably has one of China’s [...]