Submitted by jenny on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 06:38
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Other, current “matchmaking” services in use on the internet. As is commonly known, matchmaking has been around for a long time, helping men and women meet their future partner. The internet is widely used today as a tool to help young men and women to meet each other.
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How this “matchmaking “ service will work. Here, I propose a matchmaking service that would link willing “telephone teachers” with “telephone students”. Once a suitable telephone “partner” has been located, they can make their own arrangements for study. (Incidentally, a similar, but unrelated “matchmaking” system could be established for the purpose of linking Chinese college English majors, and American senior-citizens who want someone to talk with…but that is a different story.)
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Information to be “traded”. What information should be shared on the internet “telephone teaching” matchmaking service? Not too much: age, education level, years of English, province, area of English study desired, and times available to study on the telephone can be provided by the “student”. The “teacher” can provide the same basic information, and times available to teach. Perhaps it is better for teachers to look for students, and not students to look for teachers. Then, issues of security (especially for the younger students, whose personal information is going “on-line”), must be addressed. Again, these and other issues must be addressed!
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On the question of “profit”. I think there should be no profit for anyone in this matter. Even the matchmaking website should be “not-for-profit”; perhaps it can be subsidized by the Chinese Ministry of Education, and its workers supported by subsidy. This too, and other questions, need to be carefully discussed.
