sirell wrote:
The Chinese background is actually detrimental to the recruitment process. I was told by no less than 3 recruiters that the target demographic of recruiting teachers are primarily on 1) Caucasian and 2) Female. Lots of schools prefer to recruit Caucasian teachers because they look the part and then other skin colours that are not easily mistaken for oriental-asians and thus misunderstood to be Korean. Female teachers are also generally more preferred over male teachers, due to their natural rapport with children.
That's actually really interesting. I don't really know enough about the subject to talk more about it, sadly, other than some guesses from my observations at schools in China.
HiFromBuddha wrote:
That's actually really interesting. I don't really know enough about the subject to talk more about it, sadly, other than some guesses from my observations at schools in China.
It honestly depends where you're applying to. A lot of business language schools might look for English and Mandarin teachers because that's just economically where the world is beginning to lean. Some schools prefer Korean native teachers that are fluent in English. There are also religiously based schools (usually Catholic) that look for a Christian English teachers.
But for the general public school applications, the target demographic for hire is Caucasians and females, though Korean natives fluent in English are also very niche.
Yeah sorry Sirell, didn't mean to be rude but for a Finn it sounds weird that the teacher only speaks the other language.
Here you have to be fluent in the native tongue (Finnish) and in the language you are teaching (Swedish/French/German/English/Russian primarily in Finland)
Here you have to be fluent in the native tongue (Finnish) and in the language you are teaching (Swedish/French/German/English/Russian primarily in Finland)
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Janitsu wrote:
Yeah sorry Sirell, didn't mean to be rude but for a Finn it sounds weird that the teacher only speaks the other language.
Here you have to be fluent in the native tongue (Finnish) and in the language you are teaching (Swedish/French/German/English/Russian primarily in Finland)
Here you have to be fluent in the native tongue (Finnish) and in the language you are teaching (Swedish/French/German/English/Russian primarily in Finland)
This seems weird to me too. An understanding of the native language could be really helpful when teaching a new one.
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Searz wrote:
This seems weird to me too. An understanding of the native language could be really helpful when teaching a new one.
Well, it depends at what level the teaching is. If it's high school or university level, then there's no need for it because as was mentioned in this thread as well as what I saw during my time in China, the whole lesson is in English. I'm not even exaggerating, the two classes I attended was fully in English, and the only time I heard Mandarin was just chatter between the students. The students themselves were also more than capable understanding everything that was being said, so while it does sound odd, there really is no need for learning the local language. It's not even for linguistic based subjects either, there were Caucasian teachers at the school that did not know how to speak Mandarin other than incredibly basic, non-flowing phrases, and they were teaching just fine.
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To be honest, I don't really see why my ethnicity would weigh in on my decision to teach in SK rather than China. Teaching ESL in Asian countries is done purely in English and if you do speak Korean, they actually give you orders not to speak in Korean in front of the students. Only some schools look for Korean native teachers and those are the exception to the rule.
The Chinese background is actually detrimental to the recruitment process. I was told by no less than 3 recruiters that the target demographic of recruiting teachers are primarily on 1) Caucasian and 2) Female. Lots of schools prefer to recruit Caucasian teachers because they look the part and then other skin colours that are not easily mistaken for oriental-asians and thus misunderstood to be Korean. Female teachers are also generally more preferred over male teachers, due to their natural rapport with children.