Hi threaders
This response is not really for you Kelsey, but a general sentiment expressed in relation to some of the other responses to your question. As a native English speaker I find it extremely embarassing that posts here which refer, directly and indirectly to "standard", "quality", "competence" of English teaching, particularly in criticising others, are riddled with English grammar and spelling errors, most of them very basic.
I am very newly qualified in TESOL and I am by no means an experienced English teacher, however the grammatical and spelling breaches are so immediately obvious to me. It is shocking that even when responding in a caustic fashion to each other and quoting each other, respondents here have simply repeated the errors while putting each other down in terms of teaching ability.
I do not claim to be an expert by any means, but the spelling and grammatical breaches seem very obvious to me. I would like to believe that it is simply a case of typographical errors combined with a lack of checking that is the cause, however it seems evident that the authors are unaware of their errors altogether.
I apologise for the negativity, but as I said I find the poor English embarassing, especially in the context of many of the current thread's comments. We are supposed to be the experts teaching speakers of other languages about our own language. I do believe that discussions covering the main subject of this one are valid and useful especially to newcomers like myself, but is it wise to be also criticising the professional abilities of other teachers, whether Chinese or foreign, when our own native English ability is so flawed?
I do not check this site very often and so if anyone really wants to respond to my post and would like me to know about it, they may need to email me.
Jacques