Responding to the Learning Needs of the Chinese Students Enrolled In the College of Music and the Performing Arts of St. Paul University Manila

In 2019, Chinese students have started enrolling as cohorts in various colleges of St. Paul University Manila. While the university welcomed the influx of students, there was very little time to put up structures of support. While the university was already using English as the language of instructional delivery, managing a class with mixed English competencies among students posed teaching challenges that had to be dealt with immediately. After the pandemic happened, those challenges had to be dealt with through online instructional technologies that suffered from connectivity issues in the Philippines. Consequently, the university had to deal with the China firewall that prevented the use of popular websites like Google and Facebook that were used in most of the classes not involving Chinese students.