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Various reasons:
Low prep time and no marking - one lesson plan will do a whole week, although due to class size the smaller classes tend to draw ahead as the semester progresses.
Because I got started in the Oral E environment, my personal stash of teaching resources, is in that area and I know they work.
With our large class sizes I find Oral easier, than I would with say writing. This is because of the need for more one-on-one interaction in writing.
Although I'm quite reserved privately I like to sing and be extroverted in class. This provides entry points for reluctant students who may be failing in English unless we recover them.
None of this extroversion gets in the way of student talk time.
I've also devised a marking approach to Oral which seems to work. Students appreciate the effort I put in to awarding marks that are just and pass this on to other say freshers who come into my class in S2.
I'm also slightly subversive towards the college admin which the students appreciate. For example one speaking topic I put up in S1 for freshers is 'How are you settling in to college life?'
Long winded party official speeches are sent up. Also conversations about how to sleep standing up at flag raising ceremony. Phone calls home to talk about classes and teachers.

[BlueBlood]

Great stuff, as always, NS.

Besides Oral and Writing English, what other types of ESL courses do FT's generally teach in China?

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