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Reflection from 12 years of teaching Chinese students

6/23/2021

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In May of 2020, as I posted the grades for my last Chinese Communication Principles class, I paused for a moment of reflection… I took some time to thank God for allowing me 12 great years for the amazing opportunity to teach our Chinese students! It has been a challenge, a stretch, and an exercise of my heart.



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Nie Xin - fake name: Nicole

6/15/2021

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Nie Xin walked into my ESL level Principles of Communication classroom full of energy, and began enthusiastic verbal activity with the other Chinese students. In other words, she was laughing and talking a lot. That was not normal for my new Chinese students. But this was a semester that was starting in January. Spring semesters were always a little different because most of the students had been at Harding for a semester and already knew each other.  However, this was Xin’s first semester at Harding. Her English was good because she had transferred from an English-speaking university in the Philippines.  Her hometown was Yueyang, Hunan, China, a suburb of the much bigger city of Changsha.


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