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THE TERMINAL

The Hollywood movie “The Terminal” is an interesting story that unintentionally demonstrates the principles of 2nd language acquisition. When surrounded with an English environment, you absorb the language from your environment. You listen to more English, read more English, write more English and speak more English.

Chinese students studying English in China are surrounded with [...]

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 [...]

WALK THE LINE

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.

What did the man in black teach you?

NOT WITHOUT

Western conflicts with Muslim culture. An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

What did you learn from this cross-cultural story?

SOUND LABS

Chinese universities have invested heavily in sound labs to teach English listening.

Post-graduate students who have spent many hours in these sound labs know nothing about proper listening skills. They speak with each other in Chinese and off topic while someone else has the floor. Their cell phones ring and they answer them. They send [...]

60 AGE LIMIT

November 3, 2010 UPDATE:

WANTED: Retired Foreign Teachers Age 60 – 65 for September 2011 (Apply now)

Zhejiang SciTech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

International Office: Fanny ZSTU <fanny.gf@163.com>

June 26, 2010

There is great confusion amongst foreigners about the Chinese age limitation of 60 for foreign teachers to receive a Foreign Expert Certificate (FEC), a [...]

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 [...]

GOALS

Holistic English Goals

In the Holistic English Program we do NOT teach English language or English culture.

We facilitate English communication at whatever level the students find themselves capable. There is no individual mandatory accomplishment level to be obtained. In other words, the academic pressure is completely off.

The goals of Holistic English, in their [...]

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

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