More Than Just a Language

• Published in: Beijing review Vol. 51; no. 7; p. 32
• Main Author: Ciampa, Devon
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing The Financial Times Limited 14.02.2008
• Subjects: Communication; Cultural differences; English as a second language; English teachers; Teaching; China

Ciampa talks about being a foreign English teacher in China. He asserts that learning a language is not just about sentence structure and vocabulary. It's about culture, understanding and history. It's about communicating between countries and learning to accept differences, while embracin...