"Hello!

I'm Jen.

The tutoring services I offer are Mandarin Chinese Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening; and ESL (English as a second language) for non-native speakers. I believe I am uniquely suited for these areas because of my education and experience.

I graduated from the University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign with a BA in Chinese Language and Culture. I lived in China for almost twelve years, and have mastered Mandarin Chinese along with some other Chinese dialects.

I have 19 years of teaching experience, including transition tutoring, IELTS/TOEFL training, business English, US History, pronunciation and speech therapy, private tutoring, multimedia lectures, adult education, and teacher-training. I did transition tutoring for two years at Edison Middle School in Champaign for 9 Chinese immigrant children who needed native language tutoring in all of their subjects, as well as intensive English to prepare them to join their peers in classes taught by American teachers. I have trained teachers and offered speech therapy/pronunciation courses at China's Southwest Normal University in Chongqing, taught US history (in Mandarin) for an adult education program at Yunnan University in Kunming, completed a three-year contract at Zhaotong Teacher's College which included Business English, Listening Comprehension, Oral English, and Tourism English, and most recently, through Wyzant's platform, I have tutored Chinese exchange students and working professionals in Chinese and English. I have also offered IELTS/TOEFL training at private schools in Chongqing, Sichuan and Yunnan, taught English at several kindergartens (part-time), and tutored many Westerners (American, British, French) in Mandarin Chinese.

I enjoy teaching pronunciation because this aspect of language is often overlooked by other teachers. I take pride in sounding completely native when I speak Chinese, and several people upon meeting me for the first time were surprised because they assumed I was Chinese over the phone. I can help any student" less...