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[TangWolun]

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Any notion of being right or wrong depends on what side of the EFL fence you're sitting.
EFL for the private training school owners and their management groups is all about business and trying to exploit opportunities in the hope of creating profit. If creating profit is about combining the employment of cheap, unskilled, foreign labor with classroom showbiz (make 'em laugh), while investing a great deal of resource in the quest of convincing prospective customers to open their wallets, because this is indeed a "good school" - then for them money thinking is the right way to view EFL.

But over here on the FT side of the barrier - things are a little different - since some of us have actually decided to come to China with the hope of doing a job. Being part of a profit centered set-up, which maybe operates on a very dubious educational foundation - that could pay bellow average hourly wages, gives little time off and, in the case of the mills, expects its employees to work on a schedule that focuses on evening and weekends can take the shine off an FT's China stay - where feeling bad about your China employment starts to feel wrong!!!

But being on different sides of a fence ain't the whole problem, there's also that working culture factor to contend with. Chinese employers may not yet be used to employees -
- feeling a pride in their work
- showing personal responsibility towards standards of service
- being prepared to confront management with regard to poor quality and service
- trying to create working situations that produce personal levels of job satisfaction, rather than just mindlessly burning those working hours off
- openly demanding better conditions

But I suppose on our side of the fence - EFL heading towards a place which makes the China stay a more rewarding time - then living up to some of those points - culture clash or no - could seem the right way to go

[TangWolun]

...............so Let's get a bit more convenience in having access to these materials. The stuff is all out there on the net now at the following locations.


CHINA EFL: HOLISTIC ENGLISH
The revolution has begun but the long march lies ahead.

A major research paper involving 11 foreign teachers at 6 colleges and universities in four provinces of china report the results of implementing an English acquisition program designed exclusively for Chinese college students.

http://www.usingenglish.com/esl-in-china/holistic-english-1.pdf

http://www.usingenglish.com/esl-in-china/holistic-english-2.pdf


it's there for the downloading and free!

Cheers
TangWolun.

我英文学生不想猴子！！！

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