English Teaching in China

After the language lesson, Min and I talked about teaching English in China.  She said Chinese teachers teach writing and grammar there, while foreign teachers do listening and speaking.  At a university in Shanghai, I would probably do ESP (English for Special Purposes).  I was glad to hear that, since I figured that students would be more motivated to study exactly the kind of English they planned to use.  During my teaching classes this year, I had been thinking about how to have students do skits of business meetings.  I could get lectures about business from the Internet and have students look for key points about pragmatics and pronunciation.  I'm starting to get excited!