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LEARN TO SWIM

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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

Wannabe China Teacher?

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 [...]

4 GREAT TRUTHS

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 [...]

China Movies

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

Law Movies

LAW

Inherit The Wind

12 Angry Men

Erin Brockovitch

Enron

Disclosure

Life and Debt

McLibel

The Corporation

North Country

The Firm

The Insider

Paper Chase

Working Girl

Marketing Movies

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

LEARN VS. ACQUIRE

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 [...]

USTC

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 [...]