IN PREPARATION FOR the summer Olympics in 2008, the authorities in Beijing, the host city and China’s capital, launched a campaign to teach English to residents likely to come in contact with foreign ...
A few weeks ago, Richard Stephens was teaching English in a school on the edge of the Gobi Dessert. Stephens is the organizer of an non-for-profit international cultural exchange organization Links ...
English teacher Rebecca Stormer lives in Mianyang, China — about 30 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake that hit Monday. The tremors have been getting milder, she tells Alex Chadwick, as yet ...
Only 7% of the Chinese population speaks English, according to data. The inclusion of English in the school curriculum has been debated for years in the country. Having a translation app is essential ...
SHANGHAI — On a chilly Saturday morning in mid-December, a big crowd has formed outside the gates of a downtown primary school. Children stream into the building, while teachers try to keep order and ...
WHEN CHINA made English a compulsory primary-school subject in 2001, the same year it joined the World Trade Organisation, it was taken as a sign that the once-insular country was opening up. The ...
China’s red-hot enthusiasm for international schools is showing no signs of cooling off anytime soon. In 1999, just 86 schools taught international curricula, by 2019 there were over 800. That number ...
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