Perspectives on Teaching English to Chinese Learners in U.S. Colleges

Gain an in-depth understanding of the Chinese learner to improve your teaching practices and help your students succeed. Take a step back from familiar contexts and examine how institutional structures, the relationship between the U.S. and a student's country of origin, and the student's motivations and attitudes all play a role in students' English learning. Experience first-hand accounts from authors Ke Xu and Linglan Cao and "A Day in the Life" perspectives of both a teacher and a student. This search for knowledge and understanding can be done for any student population to best meet each teacher's needs, bring about positive change, and create the best learning environment for all.

Ke Xu teaches ESL and CALL at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. An author and co-author of 6 books and over 40 chapters and articles, editor of 3 book series, he has published extensively in EFL testing, methodology, teacher education, computer-assisted language teaching and multicultural communication. Linglan Cao obtained her EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, and has taught both EFL in China and ESL in the USA for 34 years. She currently teaches composition and research writing courses at York College, CUNY, an urban school where a great number of students are foreign born, non-native English speakers.