Ms. Linda J. Visner, from Seatle, US, acquired her bachelor and master degree in linguistics. Ms. Visner has been teaching English in China for 8 years and she is very interested in the difference of educational system in urban and rural areas. She hopes to inspire new ideas and enhance people’s awareness about such gap through her research.

Choosing BNUZ

“Zhuhai is a clean and beautiful place.” This is Ms. Visner’s first impression about BNUZ after she researched on the internet. And it is such a simple reason that makes Ms. Visner choose to settle in Zhuhai and afterwards she fell in love with teaching here.

For Ms. Visner, there are other places and jobs but she finally chose BNUZ. She explained “I have been living in China for a long time. I used to work and live in other big cities like Chengdu and Qinghai, etc. But no place attracts me as much as BNUZ does.”

First, the campus environment is so elegant. Second, since Ms. Visner used to work in Southwest China for many years, she wants to make a comparison about the education and educational mode between Southwest China and East China. She said “As there are a lot of differences, I believe this would be a very interesting subject.”

Enjoy Teaching

It seems a great delight for Ms. Visner to work and study with students at BNUZ. Her feeling about teaching at BNUZ is that if a teacher can be fully prepared for the class, most of the students would like to help and cooperate. “that’s why I love to stay with students at BNUZ.”

Besides, she said that extracurricular activities at BNUZ are very interesting. “In most cases, we hold events like cooking and Christmas parties annually and everyone enjoys this. That is another reason I like here.” In her opinion, students at BNUZ are very smart and energetic. Therefore, if the teachers can teach sincerely, students will pay back with a full concentration on their work.”

International Educational Mode

Ms. Visner is very happy after learning about the cooperative programs between BNUZ and other famous universities like Saint Mary’s University. Learning in different places and under different educational systems can broaden students’ mind. And at the same time, students from Canada, US, New Zealand, and UK can also take such opportunities to come to China to learn Chinese and Chinese culture. Ms. Visner thinks that it is very meaningful to establish exchange programs with universities of different countries and it is also a good opportunity to learn from each other.