Qualification is difficult to check？ Foreign teachers mainly look at faces？ The ＂English teachers＂ in training institutions are actually Portuguese.

　　CCTV News:At present, learning English is a basic need in work, study and life for both children and adults, so various English training institutions are hot. However, with the gradual shortage of high-quality foreign teachers, some institutions have the phenomenon of "having a foreign face, you can be a foreign teacher", and the class hours are expensive. Does this price really match the quality of teaching?

　　The mother tongue of "English foreign teachers" is not English.

　　In Beijing, the reporter visited several English training institutions. When recommending courses for foreign teachers, most training institutions indicate that their foreign teachers are from English-speaking countries such as the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia.

　　Staff of an English training institution:Both online and offline, our foreign teachers are teachers from North America and Canada.

　　Staff of an English training institution:All the foreign teachers come from Ireland, that is, those countries next to Britain.

　　The reporter learned that most of the foreign teachers’ oral English classes in these training institutions are taught in small classes, and the average price per class is around 600 yuan to 700 yuan, which is much higher than that of the courses taught by Mr. China.

　　Staff of an English training institution:China has a class with 6 students in each class, which lasts for 10 hours and costs 3080 yuan. Foreign teachers teach 1800 yuan an hour, which means chatting.

　　However, the reporter found that the publicity of these English training institutions seems to be untrue. On an online English training mobile APP, the customer service staff has always stressed that all their foreign teachers come from English-speaking countries such as Britain, the United States, Australia and Canada, but in the "Recommended Teachers" section, the reporter saw that there are two Portuguese teachers.

　　English teachers:I was born in Portugal. You know, Portugal is not an English-speaking country. But I can learn English well. I have been teaching English for 4 years. Most people who meet me will think that I was born and raised in America.

　　In the teacher information released by many English training institutions, the reporter also found that many foreign teachers live in countries where English is not the main language.

　　English teachers:I come from Ukraine, and I am an English teacher in China.

　　English teachers:I’m from Morocco. I’m 23 years old. Now I’m an English teacher in China, teaching children.

　　Some consumers said that from the perspective of teaching, whether the mother tongue is English is not a necessary condition for teaching English well. But the English pronunciation of some foreign teachers is really flattering.

　　Consumer:I signed up for a foreign teacher class, but he insisted that he was British, but whether it sounded or looked, I thought he was from Southeast Asia, and his pronunciation was awkward.

　　The staff of an English training institution told reporters that their foreign teachers not only have accents, but also have multiple jobs.

　　Staff of an English training institution:There is a Frenchman who works part-time as a foreign teacher here. I am not shy about it. He just speaks with an accent. He has five jobs in China at the same time, and he has everything in his major, such as liberal arts, science, engineering and art … …

　　Foreign teachers’ qualifications are difficult to check.

　　According to the relevant laws and regulations of our country, foreigners must obtain employment permit certificates when they are employed in China. Foreigners who come to China to apply for a foreign language teaching work visa must meet the conditions of having a bachelor’s degree or above, two years or above relevant work experience, being engaged in mother tongue teaching, and having no criminal record. Then, do the foreign teachers in these training institutions now have relevant qualifications?

　　Staff of an English training institution:This is the personal privacy of foreign teachers and cannot be made public.

　　Staff of an English training institutionI can show you TESOL (teaching english to speakers of other languages Certificate), but not passport. It’s personal privacy.

　　Reporter:What about the visa?

　　Staff of an English training institution:Of course, I can’t show you the visa.

　　When a reporter asked on the official website of a training institution whether it was possible to check the qualifications of foreign teachers, he got the reply that "there is a shortage of foreign teachers now" and the status of foreign teachers belongs to "trade secrets". Some training institutions don’t even know what a foreigner’s work permit is.

　　Reporter:May I see the foreign teacher’s work permit?

　　Staff of an English training institution:What is this thing? I’m not sure what this is.

　　According to China’s relevant regulations, only "Z-visa" is issued to those who apply to work in China. Foreigners holding other visas such as students and tourists are not allowed to teach in China. The reporter learned that in China, it is not easy for foreign teachers to get a work permit for teaching foreign languages in non-native countries.

　　Reporter:If you are from a non-native English-speaking country, can you apply for a work permit in China and be a foreign teacher in China?

　　Staff of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs:In principle, foreign language teachers must be native speakers, so if (foreign teachers in non-native countries) want to submit online normally, we will definitely not approve it, because it is written in the policy.

　　The reporter found in the investigation that there are also foreign teachers’ intermediary companies to contact foreign teachers’ resources for training institutions, with different qualifications and different prices. According to the intermediary staff, foreign teachers from English-speaking countries who hold cultural and educational work visas generally earn more than 20 thousand yuan a month; If it is a foreign teacher whose mother tongue is not English and holds a student visa, the monthly salary is about 10 thousand yuan.

　　Staff of a foreign teacher intermediary company:Only the cultural and educational work visas are legal, and all other visas are illegal, but most foreign teachers in China are illegal now, but as long as this is not found, there is no problem.

　　It is necessary to be cautious to strictly investigate foreigners’ illegal work and choose foreign teachers

　　With a foreigner’s face, these unqualified "foreign teachers" can easily find a job with a good salary. And parents spent high tuition fees in exchange for courses that were not worthy of the name. In recent years, all kinds of chaos in the foreign teacher market have attracted the attention of the relevant state departments, and they have cracked down with heavy punches.

　　Recently, Beijing No.3 Intermediate People’s Court made a final judgment on Liu Moujuan and other three people suspected of committing the crime of organizing others to cross the border. The three defendants knew that foreign teachers did not have legal entry procedures, but also illegally organized a number of foreign teachers to enter the country and introduced foreign teachers to engage in illegal labor services. In the end, he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, one year and nine months, and one year and six months, and fined 10,000 yuan and 5,000 yuan.

　　Yu Jingmin, presiding judge of Beijing No.3 Intermediate People’s Court:They found some foreigners who are interested in working as foreign teachers in China through instant messaging tools and online forums.

　　According to the defendant’s confession and testimony, these unqualified foreign teachers they organized mainly obtained the opportunity to come to China by handling short-term visas such as study visas and business visas.

　　Yu Jingmin, presiding judge of Beijing No.3 Intermediate People’s Court:They discussed with foreigners to carry out early childhood education in China in this way. After the visa expires, they will organize foreigners to go to some Chinese embassies and consulates abroad to renew their visas and continue to work illegally in China.

　　The staff of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs who was sentenced to importing "black foreign teachers" said that regular foreign teachers must go through examination and approval and obtain the Work Permit for Foreigners and the work-related residence certificate issued by the Public Security Bureau before they can take up their posts. When choosing a foreign teacher, parents can ask the training institution to provide the Work Permit of the foreign teacher.

　　Lu Suwen, a staff member of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs:The front is the issuing authority of the license, and the back can see the photo and name of the foreign teacher, as well as a QR code, which can be scanned by Alipay or WeChat to get the corresponding information of the foreign teacher.

　　Staff of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs:There will be specific job positions when you scan them out, instead of writing "foreign teacher" in such a general way, you will write down English teachers or other language teachers.

　　In addition, the work permit for foreigners requires annual inspection. If consumers find that the work permit is overdue or the position on the work permit does not match their actual position, they can report it to the public security organ in time.