TESOL News

Linguistic Institute  Plan ahead!  Our very own Department of Linguistics is hosting the Linguistic Institute 2011 - July 7- August 2.  Preliminary information available at:  http://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/

Teaching and Lecturing Positions 

China

Dr. Anne Bliss often recruits ESL/EFL teachers for Xi'an Jiaotong University and City College. The City College is a young, affiliated university with Xi'an Jiaotong U., one of China's seven key public universities. Both institutions are located in Xi'an, about 600 miles inland from both Shanghai and Beijing; Xi'an is China' third city and is "in charge" of development of the west/northwest of China. 10,000,000 official residents live there; the City College is on the outskirts in a lovely agricultural eco-zone with easy access into the central city and a hot spring pool about 1 km. down the street.  Xi'an is a very historic site; the Terra Cotta Warriors and Qin Dynasty (plus 15 others) centered their activities in this area.

The City College offers a contract that includes:
RT Airfare from the teachers' home city in the US
Housing on the campus (faculty live on campus in apartments, which are less than one year old; there are cafeterias on campus with good/inexpensive food and very inexpensive meal plans)
Health Insurance (it's good; Xi'an Jiaotong U. has the biggest medical school in western China and it is excellent, both eastern and western medicine, 8 teaching hospitals--Anne can personally vouch for the excellent care.)
Salary commensurate with degree and experience (MA: about 5000 yuan/mo. = $1,000 US dependent on exchange rate; Chinese teachers earn about 600 yuan/mo. so the foreign teacher will have money for travel/saving)
One RT air ticket to any domestic site for vacation
All Chinese vacation days (several holidays, plus Spring Festival in Jan/Feb. for several weeks)
Opportunities to travel as a university representative to province village schools (this is a wonderful experience)
Opportunity to take classes in Chinese or other topics (cooking, etc.)

Teaching: approximately 10-14 contact hours in the classroom per week, depending on classes; opportunity to develop extracurricular activities for the students (all live on campus); faculty travel to mountains/etc.--the Dean often plans outings for the faculty for hiking, cultural trips, etc. The English teachers have high levels of English, many with Master's degrees; they are mostly younger than 40, many in their upper 20s; all of them are very congenial and a lot of fun!

Anne  has worked with these two universities since 2000. She notes that this opportunity promises a very interesting year in a fun place with very good students (from the top 15% of high school grads), and who have an interest in teaching in China. These are plum positions compared to most foreign teachers' positions in China. Qualified and interested?  Contact Anne.Bliss@gmail.com immediately.   Anne Bliss, Ph.D.  (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA; Universidad Catolica del Maule, CHILE; Xi'an Jiaotong University and City College, CHINA; Fulbright Commission of CHILE)