SEARU (Australia)
It is rare for public middle schools to employ foreigners as language teachers due to the high salary that they must pay. But many private schools are ready to do so in order to recruit more students!
So middle schools impose a tight schedule on their learners. They have their timetables chock-a-block full with lessons and an extra lesson for oral English is difficult to incorporate. That may be a reason why Chinese students' oral English is so poor.
A foreign teacher interacts with her students at an English training center in Hangzhou on July 8, 2014.[Photo/IC] |
In our daily life, more and more loanwords appear and change our habits in Chinese expression. Loanwords sound very similar with their original English words, and the process of learning them is full of fun to foreign students.
It has been a while since I've contributed to this Forum and I figured that since now I am officially on summer holiday and another school year is behind me I would share a post with you.