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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. 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 have been thrown into [...] 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 routinely [...] 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 [...] CHINESE ADMINS I just published a study called “Dissatisfied Customers” of a Shanghai joint venture business institute. (It is available on my download page) The study reveals the complaints of the 1,600 students. The Dean’s reaction can be found at the end of the article. She was a horrible administrator who repeatedly lied to her students [...] THE PURPOSE OF THIS THREAD IS TO SHOW AGREEMENT BETWEEN ONE CHINESE AND TWO WESTERN TOP EDUCATORS AND IS NOT AN ATTACK ON CHINA. EAST VS WEST Several years ago there was an educational conference in Beijing where the three keynote speakers were the Chancellor of Oxford University, President of Yale University and the President of Peking [...] I AM SO #@&%$ ANGRY! – – AND YOU SHOULD BE TOO CONCLUSION A Sun Yat-sen administrator ( not in the English teaching department) disregards students’ opinions and does not disguise his contempt for those he is supposed to serve: “You mean you believe in their moody frustration in learning (yes, learning) English? — I fully [...] UNREACHABLE AND UNTEACHABLE STUDENTS Every Chinese college and university has them, from top tier down to the bottom 4th tier.Usually every class has at least one and the unlucky teacher may be saddled with several. Occasionally, an entire class may be beyond reach. No matter what the pedagogy, the methodology, the materials; there are some students who [...] |
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