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Realities, Challenges, and Promises - Promoting the Next Generation of English Teachers in China Jun Liu May 18, 2007 Beijing, China. Did You Know. The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s. Is greater than the total population of North America.

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  1. Realities, Challenges, and Promises- Promoting the Next Generation of English Teachers in ChinaJun LiuMay 18, 2007 Beijing, China

  2. Did You Know . . .

  3. The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s . . .

  4. Is greater than the total population of North America.

  5. China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.

  6. If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China . . .

  7. China would still have a labor surplus.

  8. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs . . .

  9. By the age of 38.

  10. According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .

  11. 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than one year.

  12. More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked for for less than five years.

  13. According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley . . .

  14. The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

  15. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

  16. Using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .

  17. In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

  18. Did you know . . .

  19. We are living in exponential times.

  20. There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.

  21. To whom were these questions addressed B.G.?(Before Google)

  22. Did you know . . .

  23. The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.

  24. There are about 540,000 words in the English language . . .

  25. About 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

  26. More than 3,000 new books are published . . .

  27. Daily.

  28. It’s estimated that a week’s worth of New York Times . . .

  29. Contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century.

  30. It’s estimated that 1.5 exabytes (that’s 1.5 x 1018) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.

  31. That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

  32. The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.

  33. That means for a student starting a four-year technical or college degree . . .

  34. Half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

  35. It’s predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.

  36. Now you know . . .

  37. It is not easy to be a teacher in this information age.

  38. It is even more difficult to be a language educator, because

  39. Language Education is affected by multiple factors, such as political, economic, and educational.

  40. Table 1: Real GDP Growth

  41. Table 2: Real GDP growth in some main countries

  42. Real GDP growth in Asian countries in particular

  43. Table 3:Exports in some main countries

  44. Figure: Internet top ten languages

  45. Table 4: Top Ten Languages Used in the Web

  46. Table 5:Internet users and population statistics for Asia

  47. Table 6:Asia internet usage and population (1)

  48. Asia internet usage and population (2)

  49. English Education in China • One billion EFL learners in 2000 and will double in 2010 • 300 million EFL learners in China spending $60 billion a year

  50. How many teachers are needed to teach English in China? • If one teacher teaches 100 students, then there needs about 3 million EFL teacher in China, and 6 million in 2010.

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