Generation Y
Getting Ready for "Generation Why": Teaching English as a Foreign Language in ChinaTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes-our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), "The Ethics of England" After 9 years of supposedly learning English at middle school and university, I finally achieved my goal of being able to have a conversation with a foreigner about something other than the weather and Cantonese food. How did I do it? By listening each day to VOA and the BBC. [Z.H.B, Male, Age 41, Guangzhou Businessman; Conversation, 2002 04 17]Now I don't want to say anything bad about my teachers. They were very good and they helped me to prepare for all my Band examinations, but we spoke very little English in class. We just went over the text and answered all the questions. I am sorry I say so little in our class, but I worry about my poor speaking of English language. [C.W.W. Male, Age 36, Software Engineer; Email, 2000 12 20]My husband and I both studied English in high school and then we met in Japanese class at university. You know I studied Japanese for four years, from 1991 to 1994 but I can hardly speak a word today. My English is actually much
(Note: The writer wishes to acknowledge, with gratitude, the assistance of Charlotte Noriega-Jones in compiling the audiological information for this paper. In addition to these factors, there are the uncovered windows, another hard surface (which at Guangwai, serve the additional unwanted function of amplifying the noise of departing airplanes. Chinese EFL Teachers are not familiar or entirely comfortable with the concept of the classroom as a "Community of Learners"As Hu (1995) has suggested, language is human and social; its acquisition takes place in a social milieu and is affected by this perspective. He can be reached by email at ecn@shaw. (1990) The language teaching matrix. Indeed, if a CLT approach is to be adopted in the majority of EFL classrooms in China, there may be a distinct advantage for the purposes of comprehensive communication if both parties speak with a similar "accent". Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Nevertheless, despite considerable research demonstrating the success of intensive language learning, most teachers and students in China make little effort to practice their English unless an examination is on the horizon.
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