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[aka Dave]

This woman I teach is fluent in English, I mean she is completely competent in coversation and her essays. But somehow she failed the first phase of the 임 용 고 시. Well most students do fail that, but she's a brilliant student.

This was an absolute heartbreaker no one in the dept. saw it coming. Believe me, native speakers could fail that test. She explained to me in English how Mao destroyed the honorific system in Chinese.

I just don't get it. She should be teaching tomorrow. You'd be lucky to have her as a co-teacher.

[pootle]

That's bo-llocks! Goes to show how the testing doesn't meet the need. I'd much rather see a teacher who can hold a conversation in English over any teacher who can point at a textbook and mumble about some inconsequential grammar point.

When is the system going to change? It is ridiculous to hear this from you and to also know that I have one co-teacher whose English conversation is excellent but who gets paid less than another co-teacher who can't answer 'What did you do at the weekend?'.

[ChinaBoy]

If you don't use English, I don't know what you are talking about.