About us
MISSION
Promote a better way of English learning.
We are an English learning group from China. We promote ESL learning through language acquisition.
We challenge and refuse the mainstream Chinese education style of memorizing vocabulary/grammar.
We promote across China "second language acquisition" instead of the "second language learning" status quo.
WHAT WE DO
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We share the "second language acquisition" language learning method, which was proven to be more beneficial for developing English abilities with positive reviews and students' enhanced communication/pragmatic English usage. The process includes learning phonics using DVDs such as Hooked on Phonics, practicing English through extensive communication with our teachers who use English natively, and using authentic textbook materials, like Side by Side and The Oxford Reading Tree that have , which contain more natural and regional language use.
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We provide a nonprofit English learning platform that charges the students at a lower price and offer the teacher at the most competitive rate online, namely, fully what the students pay.
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We connect our talented Filipino teachers with a bigger student base so they can still teach during the time of the pandemic.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Hi! I'm Jennifer Yujie Pan, and I am the founder and current manager of TuTu English
As a student in China, I spent my entire elementary and middle school taking the government's 9-year compulsory curriculum. I soon realized that the curriculum, despite its good will to minimize inequity and provide more education opportunities for those with unfavorable family circumstances, has some fatal flaws:
1. It is too institutionalized and doesn't focus on the individual growth of students; sometimes, its education methods are sometimes backwards and futile (especially for English).
2. It smothers the passion of Chinese students. Students are often brainwashed with the ultimate goal
of getting a good score on the Gaokao (only determinant of which college you end up at), so their motivation is testing rather than passion or interest regarding a specific area.
The backlash of these flaws are explicitly evident in that students have little ability to communicate in English or use English pragmatically; in essence, the nine years of English education only served to help students achieve good grades on tests--and English's actual use, to be able to communicate with the world and bridge/share ideas, was never realized. I wanted to use my experience and realization to change the status quo, and that is why I founded TuTu English.