French with Will L.

Mingshi English (Fushun, Liaoning Province, PRC)

At Mingshi English, I worked primarily in public schools working from set curricula. I worked in every level of K-8 with class sizes from between 35 and 120 students. On weekends I also worked in private schools with K-12 students using various curricula, the class sizes being between 3 and 20 students. One evening a week I taught adults, at various levels of proficiency all in the same class. For this class I created my own lessons.

AJ Tutoring

At AJ Tutoring, in the heart of Silicon Valley, I was a subject matter expert for French. I tutored French for students from some of the best public high schools in the US, and several Elite private schools. I worked with students of many levels of competence, working from a plethora of textbooks. I also did test prep for the ACT, SAT, PSAT and several High School Entrance Exams (every level of ISEE, SSAT and HSPT). I also taught K-8 subjects and helped create lessons for the English department.

Chemeketa Community College

At Chemeketa, after taking my first official French classes (FR202 and FR 203 - I had studied French on my own and lived there as a farmer in 2009) I was hired to tutor by the French department head to tutor FR101 through FR203. As a tutor, I worked to demystify the grammatical jargon that put students off. I also worked as a conversation partner and put on workshops. I returned to China in June of 2014 for a working vacation then moved to Portland to continue at PSU in 2015.

Horson Education (Shenyang, Liaoning Province, PRC)

At Horson, I was able to start working on a coherent curriculum, designed for college students who were preparing to study abroad. I also taught at the Shenyang Foreign Language High School, which was a sort of language teaching lab. Invigorated by the experience, I decided to go to college in the states to study Linguistics.

Sunbo Foreign Language School (Shenyang, Liaoning Province, PRC)

At Sunbo I worked almost exclusively in a private language school setting. The clientele were mostly young professionals looking to improve their English to get ahead at work, or college students with a few spare hours a week to study. For the most part, I worked from lessons that I developed myself. I was able to test each lesson on multiple classes, which helped me to start seeing trends that were positive or negative through several classes. I began incorporating ideas that I was learning from the linguistics books that I studied in my free time.

Portland State University

ACCET

I received my CTESOL (Certificate for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from Transworld Schools in San Francisco.

Limited Proficiency

Professional Proficiency

Native Proficiency

Limited Proficiency