okey for you pinayinchina.

I appreciate your courage to give your arguments supposedly to defend the Filipino FTs in this land. I patiently read all the posts with regards to this issue...some amused me...some angered me...some amazed me and some really aroused me to air my doxa.

First, you seemed to be speaking on behalf of all the Filipinos which geared the arguments(criticisms) towards all the Filipinos. Please accept the fact that you really made a lot of lapses in your grammar. getting all these insults hurled to you(us) must have been traumatic for you but my advise is "improve yourself" ...learn from the expert.s

Sad to say, there are really some Filipinos who were able to get positions here who lack the fluency...enough reason why we reap criticisms from these language geniuses(???), but not enough to say that Chinese english teachers can teach better than we do...you have already enumerated almost all the other factors which could make a teacher effective so i wouldn't repeat those again.

On the other side, i'm sure that there are also many Filipino FTs who are at par or even better than these native speakers ... taking into consideration all the other factors that would make an effective teacher.
I'm also a Filipino...i'm teaching at one of the biggest universities (one affiliated with Peking U) here,i'm on my third year. I'm not sure whether i did this composition with the correct "structure" or not, there's one thing i'm pretty sure of, i'm sure of my ability as a teacher. For the past years I always got a 100% approval during evaluations and had good rapport with my colleagues (11 FTs, all NSs).

We only need to deliver what is expected of us...our employers sure want to get their money worth...the students only deserve the best...we should behave in a country which is not ours...let's just do our jobs.