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ABC for a DAY

Although I am Chinese, born, raised and educated in China, for one day I did role play and pretended that I was an ABC (American Born Chinese) on vaction in China and I only speak ENGLISH.  This is my story.

After  the classroom discussion of the movie “The Terminal,” select one day of [...]

DENG XIAOPING

DENG XIAOPING

1904 – 1997

It is with deep admiration and respect for Deng Xiaoping that we attempt to build upon his philosophy and vision for modernization of China’s educational system.

We are mindful of the wisdom of Deng Xiaoping when he said:

“It’s not that we have [...]

First Day Student Culture Shock

The beginning of any new academic semester is fraught with inevitable required adjustments. The post-graduate students (pgs) are no exception. They are required to take one semester of oral English with a foreign teacher. Most pgs have had prior undergraduate experiences with this inconsequential course where the grade does [...]

’09 ENGLISH MOVIES

FREE CHOICE ENGLISH MOVIE LIBRARY

To facilitate autonomous learning strategies, the Sun Yat-sen University department of post-graduate English teaching for non-English majors has created an English movie library. All of the movies are English language with English or no subtitles. (There are absolutely no Chinese [...]

’09 Class Mgmt.

 

CLASS MANAGMENT

 

With between 600 to 700 students each term, volunteer student assistants are recruited to assist with class management. At least one student assistant is assigned to each class. The duties of the student assistant include establishing an email directory for all members of each class. Throughout the term emails [...]

’09 English Corner

MY ENGLISH CORNER EXPERIENCE

Also: go to the download page and read the free article “China EFL: English Corner”

Over the years I have attended enough English Corers to know that it is better to avoid them like you would avoid SARS, they make me sick. Many foreign teachers have no choice; it [...]