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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 The debate rages on – what is Standard English? There are those who advocate learning Standard British English, Standard American English or Standard International English. Linguists and language scholars have conjured up such concepts in their own minds but no such Standard English actually exists in reality. Chinese scholars admonish their students to “master” Standard [...] Teacher Evaluations Course and teacher evaluations by students have their limitations. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/deep-in-the-heart-of-texas/ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/student-evaluations-part-two/ As one poster opined, Phil Los Angeles June 29th, 2010 7:13 pm Students can’t tell what ought to be in a course. Asking them to comment on content is wrong. Students do have something (not everything) to say [...] 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 [...] A favorite summer camp activity in America is for children to go on a snipe hunt. Burlap sack or butterfly net in hand, kids chase down snipes at sunset. Interestingly, no one has ever caught a snipe. In fact, no one has even ever seen a snipe. The reason is simple. There is no such [...] INTRODUCTION At any given moment there are twice as many Chinese learning English as there are citizens of the U.S.A. English instruction begins in kindergarten and continues into postgraduate study, for both English majors and non-English majors. Everyone in China must study English. Local variants of English such as Chinglish and Chinese 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 [...] STUDENTS’ LACK OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AWARENESS Martin Wolff Sun Yat-sen University INTRODUCTION Intellectual Property Protection remains a hot topic in China. The west applies constant pressure on China for more enforcement and China responds with increased enrollment in law schools, retention of more prosecutors and an annual increase of [...] |
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