Oral English teachers, as Turnoi has told you, only exist in China and have been here in significant numbers for at least two decades.

Anyone who has been in China more than a week can evaluate the quality of spoken English in China.

It would be an interesting discussion as to whether the presence of these oral-only FTs has been, in sum, positive or negative.

My point of view is that the contribution, while negligible, is offset by the damage it has done to the comprehensive language ability of the existing Chinese English teachers, who have been able to avoid addressing the issue of their own limited oral language ability with the presence of FTs.

FTs have been enablers. Patches applied to a language training system that fails to adequately integrated oral language skills.