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In July 2002 I was invited to be the foreign teacher for a 3 week English summer camp in Shaoxing. I hadn’t come to China to teach English and was no way qualified to be an English teacher and as such, was surely at that time, the shittiest teacher... ...full story at Sinocidal

from Sinocidal on Tue, Sep 25 2007

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04 Aug 08 visit Teaching English in China - Stories from EF Teacher Sadie  »  YouTube videoSadie, a student of international law and teacher at EF English First in Shanghai, describes her life teaching English in China's business capital.
12 Sep 08 visit Teacher Hu’s dangerous English  »  Black & White Cat New advert for language classes joins older government health warning: “Teacher Hu’s English CAN SPREAD AIDS“ (h/t Hecaitou)
14 Sep 09 visit Teacher learns life lessons in faraway land  »  People's Daily Xu Jianling has stayed in Brunei for almost two years, but she seldom feels like she is in a foreign country. That's because the teacher from China says she does not need to jump between languages. "In China, I used Chinese to teach English. In...
20 Jul 07 visit More Bondage for English First  »  Sinosplice In early 2007 English First (an English training school) was running this ad in Shanghai: What kind of message is that sending? Apparently they later decided that they needed to make sure that the foreign teacher in the ad was more mature (and perhaps...
11 Oct 07 visit The MC Hammer School of English  »  Shanghaiist This cute little video is from an English teacher in Taiwan who came up with a way to teach his kids English... the MC Hammer way. We wish school was this fun for us, and hopefully the clip will inspire all TEFL teachers out there. From Daryl Caesar:The...
15 Jan 09 visit Teacher develops China's first Tibetan-Chinese-English electronic dictionary  »  People's Daily The words "computer" and "energy conservation" were not in the lexicon of some Tibetan farmers far away from Lhasa until a teacher developed a handheld electronic translator. With one keyboard, users can switch between Tibetan, Chinese and English...

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