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About Liu Xun (刘迅)

Who am I and what do I think I'm doing teaching Chinese?

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Hello, my name is Paul Faust.  I started learning Chinese when I was an undergraduate at UW-Madison.  I have been in love with language teaching since I started as an English teacher in 1989 in Taiwan.  Since then I have also taught in Indonesia and the US.  I love teaching all ages and have a passion for seeing my students learn and improve.  In the last five years, I have specialized in teaching with Comprehensible Input, which I have seen to be by far the most effective approach to creating competent speakers.

  • Certified K12 Chinese Educator in MN and WI,
  • Four years as Middle School and High School Chinese teacher in the Twin Cities area,
  • Seventeen years teaching English as a Foreign Language in Taiwan,
  • Owner and academic director of my own private language center in Taiwan since 2000,
  • BA, Linguistics, UW-Madison, 
  • MS, Curriculum and Instruction, UW-Milwaukee, 
  • BS, Chinese Education K-12, UW-Madison,
  • Former President, Wisconsin Association of Chinese Language Teachers,
  • Teacher/student, 2013 University of Hawaii STARTALK summer institute,
  • Fellow, 2010 Intensive Summer Language Institute, Changchun, China,
  • Fellow, 2008-9 Critical Languages Fellowship program, WI Dept. of Public Instruction,
  • Over 100 hours specific training in Comprehensible Input methodology, including work as a coach for others needing assistance.
  • Near-native Chinese pronunciation and command of conversational Mandarin, both Chinese and Taiwan standards, good command of reading and writing in both simplified and traditional Chinese characters.
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