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Teach English in Xingcheng Zhen - Changzhi Shi

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Young learners and adult students in some Post-Soviet bloc countries face unique challenges in learning English. Some of these challenges are: time, opportunity, cost, and energy to devote to this subject. Local citizens live such a difficult, strenuous life that the struggle of how to survive each day, obtain food to eat, and clothes to wear can be so taxing that dedicating the energy to learning English in a class each week can be overwhelming. I saw firsthand how fractured their lives were while working and living with local citizens in a Post-Soviet bloc country. Most of the children live in poor families and lack the free time to attend English classes after helping with farm animals, local crops, and helping their parents in caring for their younger siblings. These children are lucky; they have parents in the country. Others are not so fortunate. A few of the children in each town live by themselves or with aging relatives while their parents work abroad. Unfortunately, these children have little to no adult supervision to help them make pro-active decisions, like learning English, that would affect their potential opportunities in the future. Typically, adults who are able to at least converse in English earn more money in the workforce. These children express a desire to learn English, but just could not fit it into their daily lives between going to school each day, cooking, cleaning the family home, and preparing food to eat for themselves and their younger siblings. These children are proud of what they can accomplish, but, like in some Asian cultures, it is more important to ‘save face’ than to admit they need help, admit they do not know the answer to a question, etc. The local government and teachers are aware of who these children are and their struggles, but they still seem to fail through the cracks. There is a need for English teachers in the schools, but the pay is very low, and it is assumed that these teachers will leave for higher-paying jobs abroad or get married, have babies, and then become full-time stay-at-home moms. Several of the qualified teachers in this country have chosen to be English tutors only because the pay is higher than working in the local schools. Tutoring creates more flexibility and opportunity for the teachers but is detrimental to the public who can’t afford tutoring. Many of the locals lack the funds to buy food, medicine, and clothes, let alone the free time to attend English classes. English education appears to be obtainable only by the wealthy or for those living within the major cities since this is where English teachers can make more money and thus are more abundant. In most medium to small-sized towns, English classes is not taught in the schools due to lack a of English teachers. This is a viscous cycle with no solution in sight. International non-profit organizations, foreign embassies, and the Peace Corps have come into this country to try to improve the situation, but on the surface, it does not appear to be improving. As soon as teachers start teaching English in the local schools, they leave within a year or two for promises of higher-paying jobs abroad. In closing, it will take time and dedicated teachers to change the minds of the local citizens that their time and efforts to learn English will pay off. This county appears to be caught in the Soviet mindset where one is told what job you will have and is restricted from striving for a better life. Yes, there are strides to bolster English teaching initiatives to work with foreigners, the country’s IT industry is growing, and computes are becoming more accessible in smaller towns in schools and public libraries. These are marked improvements and a sign of hope that over the next decade or so things will change.


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