2002 - 2009
Teacher of English for Special PurposeQingdao Mariners College, Qingdao China - Qingdao, Trung QuốcSenior teacher in the English Dept. teaching English to students in the Officer and Engineering Departments of this college. I learned to encourage students to have confidence in speaking English, to open their mouths and speak up. This was the greatest cultural barrier to their English fluency and I was very proud that with humour and energy I was able to help them. I think this lack of confidence is a universal problem that will be common with italki students as well.
2016 - Hiện tại
Online English teacherOpen English - Guelph, Ca-na-đaTeaching English online to students in Central and South America.
Through this position, I learned to use the audio and video systems and also learned the difficulties that Spanish and Portuguese speakers have in learning English. I think that cultural awareness and first language interference awareness is very important.