What is the difference between an English tutor and a Chinese tutor, and what are the advantages?

1. Different emphasis

Chinese teachers focus on sentence patterns and grammar. The foreign teachers' teaching focuses on communication and utilization.

2. Different Teaching Methods

Chinese teachers know the way of teaching English in China very well, and they can teach students to understand quickly because they have experienced the same problems of learning English as everyone else, such as lack of standard pronunciation and easy to be affected by the mother tongue thinking, and in such a background, the teacher's teaching will be more targeted.

For foreign teachers, English is their mother tongue, and as a born native speaker, it is easy for them to talk about the environment they grew up in and the culture of their own country in teaching, and everything is so natural, which is undeniably the advantage of Chinese teachers in this aspect is a little weaker.

3. The respective advantages of foreign teachers and Chinese teachers

In the teaching of English pronunciation, Chinese teachers are better at it, and more helpful to everyone's English learning. They have been through the phase of substandard pronunciation, and know what kind of problems people encounter in learning English pronunciation, such as translating the pronunciation of words into Chinese and then learning to pronounce them, so the teacher will be more targeted in the teaching process, and will be able to quickly find out the errors in pronunciation, and correct them in a timely manner.

The foreign teachers, on the other hand, take it for granted that learning words through phonetic transcription seems to be a matter of course, so it's hard to notice during the teaching process.

But English tutors for young children are mainly young people, more lively and interactive. Adult English tutor teaching focuses on practicality to improve students' speaking. Full-time foreign teachers focus on English education, English teaching income as the economic pillar of life, they generally work seriously and responsibly, teaching more professional.

Expanded Information

English tutors, that is, foreign teachers who teach English as a second foreign language, usually refers to expatriates engaged in English education in China, with expatriates in native English-speaking countries as the main ones, of which the native English-speaking countries include the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and South Africa, among other countries. countries.

Many people get into a misunderstanding that they can teach as an English tutor as long as they find a foreigner. English tutors have to meet certain qualifications to teach in China, and tutors need legal work procedures, such as work visas, teaching certificates, work permits, and so on.

Currently there is a great demand for English tutors in China, but most English tutors prefer big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, and it is still difficult to find native English tutors in small and medium-sized cities, for example, to use non-native English speakers to teach English.

In China, foreign English teachers are generally required to have a bachelor's degree or higher, more than two years of work experience in education, and TESL, TESOL, TEFL, CELTA certificates. Usually recruiting schools usually have age requirements for English tutors as well. It is expected that English teachers are between 22-60 years old, and the limit can be relaxed under special circumstances.

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