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endo
Joined: 09 Mar 2004
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 Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:33 am Post subject: 2008 Olympics |
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| Just curious, but does anybody think that their will be an explosion of TESOL jobs in and aournd Beijing during the lead up to the 2008 Summer games? |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 1797
Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:45 am Post subject: "WE WIN GOLD MEDAL!" |
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oprah wrote:
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| the Chinese only acknowledge the GOLD medals. Even though the US has a total number much greater than China, they say US has one more than China, as US has one more GOLD medal than China. |
I am certain that there will be an explosion of TESL jobs in Beijing in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics. How else can over a billion people be able to chant in English: "WE WIN GOLD MEDAL! CHINA WIN GOLD MEDAL!!" every time a Chinese athlete gets to stand on the No.1 spot on the podium?
(You will note the grammatical errors in the chant, but all of us TESLers in China know that the Chinese hardly ever correct their own grammar errors no matter how many times we tell them.)
This may sound cynical, but, given the amount of China-winning-another-gold-medal coverage in the local and national papers during these past couple of weeks, you're kind of resigned to this happening.
I may still be here in China teaching ESL when the Olympics come to the capital, but I won't be panting to go to Beijing for a job - the Olympics will be hyped to death in the next four years, and I know that the propaganda battle to win over the people is only just beginning.
You're probably familiar with the term "Olympic fever", but I think that, given the 1.3-billion population in China, the "fever" will become a veritable pandemic by 2008. |
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Roger
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:04 am Post subject: |
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Come on, little boys: don't dream! Neither our hourly wages nor the number of vacancies are going to significantly explode in the remaining four years to the China Olympiad!
The best times are over; the zenith was reached ca. 2000, when China entered the WTO. Long before that uneventful admission people we waxing lyrical about the teaching potential of China. It's now wearing off.
Proof to substantiate my claims:
Public schools below college level are not, or no longer, allowed to recruit
foreign nationals into their teaching staffs;
most training centres recruit foreign nationals not to give English classes to self-paying adults in their spare time (eveningand weekends) but loan you out to those public schools who circumvent the ban on hiring foreign teachers; someone tell me why the interest in English by Chinese adults has been waning over the past years? I used to teach classes of up to 40 adults until 1998. |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 1797
Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:17 am Post subject: Public schools not hiring foreigners? |
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Roger wrote:
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Proof to substantiate my claims:
Public schools below college level are not, or no longer, allowed to recruit
foreign nationals into their teaching staffs |
Sorry, Roger, that is not "proof"! If you were writing an academic thesis, this would be dismissed as an unsubstantiated claim. Where is your "proof"? You have provided us with none.
On the other hand, I can provide one piece of evidence: I teach at a public primary school in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and the number of foreign teachers is supposed to RISE from six to ten (or so the plan goes). I expect I will find out the actual number when the new semester starts.
Hence, my little piece of evidence actually refutes your unsubstantiated claim. Grade: 1/10. Must try harder. |
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hahahaha
Joined: 25 Apr 2004
Posts: 79
Location: China
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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I teach in a public middle school and they are actually looking for more foreign teachers.
Rogers that info you provided is sooooooo wrong. |
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