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Q: How difficult is it for English training and public schools to fill their foreign teacher vacancies?
9 years 10 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
Chinese public and training schools are reaping what they have sown from years of poor treatment of professional teachers.
Online, world wide, professional forums like LinkedIn are covering this topic in detail, with many people thinking twice about traveling to work in China.
If you are not going to pay decent salaries, treat the teachers well (not just as dancing monkey's), stick to your contract, have minimum standards adhered to, you are not going to attract the best types of teachers who are willing to teach and travel - they will go elsewhere.
In addition, if the country restricts access to the internet, a major teaching resource, and has xenophobic undercurrents tacitly encouraged and fed through main information sources, people will quickly see through the propaganda and decide it is not worth while for more than maybe a year.
Based on what I've heard and experienced it sounds like it's getting harder and harder. Fewer people want to come teach in China and the demand for foreign teachers isn't going away any time soon. Hopefully this will mean higher salaries.
It is very hard. I am trying to get 10 teachers to come to the hellknown as Tianjin. It is not going well.
Lord_hanson:
lol, I work for a Chinese company. I don't even get an advertising budget.
dokken:
Ha that made me laugh. You better hope applicants don't read this.
Lord_hanson:
In fairness, I am trying to get the company to offer more but it is an uphill struggle.
Chinese public and training schools are reaping what they have sown from years of poor treatment of professional teachers.
Online, world wide, professional forums like LinkedIn are covering this topic in detail, with many people thinking twice about traveling to work in China.
If you are not going to pay decent salaries, treat the teachers well (not just as dancing monkey's), stick to your contract, have minimum standards adhered to, you are not going to attract the best types of teachers who are willing to teach and travel - they will go elsewhere.
In addition, if the country restricts access to the internet, a major teaching resource, and has xenophobic undercurrents tacitly encouraged and fed through main information sources, people will quickly see through the propaganda and decide it is not worth while for more than maybe a year.
Many of the people that are teaching English in China do not even know the English language never mind teach it. I think that the chines , Japanese, Korean etc languages will eventually die out. They are too cumbersome too many characters too many different meanings to various phrases. I do not pretend to be an expert on Asian languages, but it looks like at trend. After all the English language has taken over the world? Comments?
rasklnik:
Nationalism aside, languages with as many speakers as Korean and Chinese will never die out. In fact, quite few written languages die out, as literacy preserves languages nicely. It is much easier for spoken languages to vanish.
yongge:
Yes, you have no idea about Asian languages. The written Chinese language is used by 13 different languages, which enables them to communicate with each other, without understanding each other's spoken language. Many Chinese and Japanese characters are similar, sharing the same meaning, but different pronunciation. I can't think why this should be replaced by any other system that will be impractical.
diverdude1:
die out?... I dunno, but I heard that Chinese written language approaches uselessness... ok, maybe overstated, but I did hear that to read a newspaper one had to know about 5000 characters. anyone else heard that? I also have been told that it takes a lot of time, effort for kids to learn to write these characters even to the basic literacy level.
Pictographic languages Vs. Alphabetic languages
We have a winner by Knock-out!
Remaining the undisputed Heavy-weight Champion of the World .... Alphabetic !!! 
coineineagh:
yeah, asian languages won't die out. but Pinyin alphabetic characters were introduced to simplify Chinese learning. Chinese scoff at them for being a child's tool, but they are far more functional than the thousands of same-style pictographs with limited correlation to actual spunds, and cluttered with redundant radicals. Hopefully soon, pinyin will become more accepable in communication. If China wants to open up in any meaningful way, it should stop writing in this cryptic insider code. And because syllables often have dozens of different meanings, only sometimes distinguished by different tones, foreign words are going to invade the language en masse.
