Teaching phonics in ESL is a step-by-step process that essentially familiarizes students with the sounds needed to produce English in order to develop their reading and writing skills. Rather than teaching the 26 letters of the alphabet, students learn the correct pronunciation of over 40 phonemes of the English language. While phonics [...]
Coming to China A lot of the foreign friends I know and have met since my time in China have all had varying reasons as to why they had come out in the first place. Some courted adventure, some felt an affinity to the culture, some wanted to [...]
When I first accepted the job at EF last year, I really wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into. The idea of moving across the world was exciting for sure, but also somewhat terrifying. I had never been to Asia, and although I had taken one course in Chinese politics in [...]
