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Watch the movie Iron and Silk on the SYSU intranet. China is always changing but China never changes. Front Stage culture changes rapidly. Back Stage cultures changes at a snail’s pace. Identify the changes in TEFL since Mark Salzman taught in China and identify those things that have not changed. Post your comments. QUALIFIED TEACHERS, BACKPACKERS, WHITE MONKEYS In 1978, when China first opened its door to the outside world, China recruited high quality foreign teachers like Mark Salzman, a Yale University graduate, to teach English as a foreign language (EFL) at the university level. As China expanded the English curriculum to middle schools, the demand for foreign [...] 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. 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 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 MOTIVATIONAL 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 the next week [...] Can you answer any of the questions? EFL/ESL Teaching in China: Questions – Questions – Questions This article raises numerous fundamental issues which appear to have been overlooked by China in its exuberance to embrace EFL/ESL teaching as China rushes to join the new world order and partake of its share of the global economic pie. This article [...] WARNING: Trojan-Horse Inside Great Wall
Go to the download page and read - English as a Foreign Language: The Modern Day Trojan Horse? If you do not know about the Trojan Horse, watch the movie “Helen of Troy” If the movie is not available on the SYSU server in the English Movie Library, COMPLAIN [...]
After reading the following, post your plan to create an ESE at SYSU. ==================================================================== ENGLISH SPEAKING ENVIRONMENT Martin Wolff Sun Yat-sen University The SYSU south campus does not lend itself to the creation of an English speaking environment. With 30,000 plus students[1] and a campus encompassing 1.17 square kilometers, with the [...] |
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