国籍：澳大利亚

负责课程：全外教口语班 中外教口语班 企业班

简历：Nationality: Australian
Qualifications:
PhD International Business. Griffith University, Brisbane
Postgraduate Courses in Mathematical Economics, Australian National
University, Canberra
BA in Economic Development , studies of Asian economies. Griffith
University, Brisbane.
Teachers Certificate (major in Education) at Armidale Teachers College .
Professional Experience
Current, Independent private researcher, harmonized environment and
economy, China Agriculture University, Beijing
Institutional Specialist, BHP Billiton, Yunnan
Reid Corporation, Beijing

授课特点：

　　By Dr John E. Coulter, Front School Teacher
　　Our native language is learnt by living it. We are surrounded by people talking it, and we speak it back to them, interacting with them and our environment. We should learn foreign languages by emulating this. As a teacher of English that is how I try to teach students.

　　A small child learns the word for "slippery" after falling over on a wet floor, and never forgets the word after that. I try to get students learning English to associate words with experience too, and they improve much more that way than memorizing from text books. Moreover their language is much more natural, fluent and apt.

　　I often bring a suitcase of things to my class - objects relevant to a lesson - clothes, tools, food, gadgets. We learn not only the nouns from them, but the adjectives and verbs that go with them. Even the best Chinese students (with vocabularies bigger than mine) can have trouble with prepositions, and this is so easy to teach in class using objects and the relationships between them (on, inside, over). They never forget crashing their paper plane through a plastic window. It is amazing the vocabulary that can be gained and firmly embedded by having a bike in the classroom. For example, we turn it upside down and adjust the chain tension. Then we talk about the abstract concept of tension in relations between people or nations.

　　Mao Zedong taught that the world is the "big school" and we often leave the class room to visit a supermarket, a car park, a construction site. When things and actions are in front of your eyes, it is so obvious what is being understood and retained. When there is an error of speech, it can be quickly and simply rectified.

　　For large and abstract concepts that cannot be brought into the classroom and seen and felt, we use classic movies, selecting dialog scenes that have series of powerful one liners. After observing the scenes and reading the script, the students act out the scene. If the students' friends and families could see them acting and shouting, whispering, demanding, pleading in English the way they do after practice, I am sure they would be amazed and proud. There was one student who came from a far way province to learn at Front School for a month. She had been shy and stumbling at first. We had done the First Class dinner scene from the Titanic, and on the last day when saying goodbye, she grabbed my arm, stared intensely through me and said with a flare Leonarda Dicaprio would be proud of, "Don't do it, take my hand and I'll help you. Make each day count."