[etni] Is Teaching English in China Really for You?
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- Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:29:11 +0200
Is Teaching English in China Really for You?
Literacy News - October 9, 2009
Teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in China is big business.
Reports indicate that EFL is a 10-billion yuan (USD $1.4 billion) business
and that the industry made a 700 million yuan (USD $9,800,000) profit in
Beijing alone. It is estimated that of the 37 billion yuan derived annually
from book sales in China, EFL-related materials constituted no less than 25
percent of the total market (Qiang and Wolff, 2004, p. 1). This ever-growing
market of English language education in China has resulted in a massive
recruitment drive of approximately 100,000 foreign teachers per year (People’s
Daily Online, 2006) and, in 2006, it was estimated that more than 150,000
foreign experts were employed in China, recruited primarily from Australia,
Canada, England, New Zealand and the United States (China Daily, 2006).
(To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.literacynews.com/2009/10/is-teaching-english-in-china-really-for-you/
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