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Q: Online Evaluation System for Foreign Language Experts
Has anyone had to do this online test in order to get a Foreign Expert Certificate? I have to do this now for Jiangsu, but it is impossible to get on the test part of the website. It would seem that it is actually a data base for employers to find employees, therefore I cannot see the point of it when you have submitted all the required documentation and the employer is happy to appoint you. The tests consist of a "behavioral test" a "general knowledge test" and a "writing test". Don't know how this will prepare you for China.
9 years 11 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
It always makes me laugh whenever Chinese think that they can evaluate FTs' fluency in English (or any other foreign language). Even Chinese people who majored in English can't formulate a sentence without heavy Chinglish mistakes in it. But hey, this is China. I might open a Chinese language school back home and ask my nephew who doesn't speak a word of Mandarin to evaluate Chinese nationals for teaching positions, sure it will work!
an online test that you can pay someone else to do for you, why am i not surprised?
Yup. Did that two years ago. I guess the point of it is: it's required for positions in Jiangsu. Sorry, I cannot comment on the efficacy of the exam for any purpose.
Tianjin has it also. A bunch of BS questions about Shakespeare and other literary icons and abstract little known teaching methods. A lot of the grammar questions have chinglish.
They grab questions from their standardized tests from various English subjects. It is nonsensical.
RachelDiD:
'Hey, let's make a test so that we know that the foreign English teachers who come to this country to teach their own native language are JUST AS good at it as Chinese English teachers!' China logic is awesome.
2Y 23 weeks ago, however I don't remember Qs about Shakespeare:
http://answers.echinacities.com/question/there-new-questionnaire-require...
I don't really mind doing the test, but I can't get the frigging system to work and open the test pages. Looks like an ancient SQL data base.
It always makes me laugh whenever Chinese think that they can evaluate FTs' fluency in English (or any other foreign language). Even Chinese people who majored in English can't formulate a sentence without heavy Chinglish mistakes in it. But hey, this is China. I might open a Chinese language school back home and ask my nephew who doesn't speak a word of Mandarin to evaluate Chinese nationals for teaching positions, sure it will work!
I've done it twice, both times at my school when I was extending my contract for another year. First time in Qingdao, second time in Xinjiang. Didn't have to do it last year though.
The test itself is fairly simple and the writing task a snack, as long as you can string sentences together.
