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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
4 Great Truths
IN THE BEGINNING
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
You can learn a language for a lifetime and never be able to use it for its communicative purpose.
You can communicate in a language without ever learning it.
Foreign students who come to China to learn Mandarin are often fluent within 3 – 6 months.
Chinese who [...]
Eat a Bowl of Tea
Farewell My Concubine
Great Wall
Iron and Silk
Joy Luck Club
Sand Pebbles
Shanghai Express
Shanghai Lady
Shanghai Noon
Tai Pan
The Last Emperor
White Countess
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
LANGUAGE LEARNING
The concept of language learning is linked to the traditional approach to the study of languages and today is still generally practiced in high schools worldwide. Attention is focused on the language in its written form and the objective is for the student to understand the structure and rules of the language through the [...]
USTC – EPC
English Practice Center USTC
The University of Science and Technology of China is one of the 9 universities named as China’s Ivy League.
This university is not under the Ministry of Education but is under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Ironically, this university has the only facility that purports to create a friendly English [...]
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