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.
