2. The main problems of English education in China
2.1 The “English-study Rush” and Chinese people overestimate the value of English to people and the country
2.1.1 The “English-study Rush” and the problems behind it
As English has become the international language, more and more Chinese people rush to learn it as a foreign language. Moreover, many different kinds of English tests appear one by one, some communities such as foreign language schools, English training schools and contests are set up in recent years. Chinese people regard English as a necessary way to find job at home and abroad, to promote and to get further degree. English is also the symbol of culture sprit and states in China. According to the research, the number of English learners in China is more than 200 million, and it is still increasing year by year.
Let’s take the English learners from primary school for an example. There are at present about 112,463,000 primary school children in China, the detail dates are as follow:
Percentage of primary school children learning English
2000 9.70%
2002 22.10%
2004 35.10%
2006 60.50%
2008 80.60%
Changes in the Academic Status of primary school English teachers
Year College and above Community College Senior 毕业论文http://www.youerw.comHigh Below Senior High
2000 5.48% 42.00% 51.97% 0.55%
2002 6.51% 44.99% 48.50% 0
2004 6.19% 45.18% 48.43% 0
2006 12.65% 56.29% 29.01% 2.05%
2008 25.85% 62.47% 18.42% 0
The bottleneck problem: Lack of Qualified Teachers
2000 8.60%
2002 9.07%
2004 13.72%
2006 26.78%
2008 36.69%
According to the research, we can see that the demand of English language as a skill has been increasing very fast, but the quality of English education is not following. The gap between these two is really increasing. If you talk about quality, we have to think about two main roles, teacher and students. From my study, for example, you would send a newly graduated teacher, obviously English majored, to a school to teach, before you send them, understand about his English level, and after one year, check his English level again. Unfortunately, you will find they haven’t improved, but instead they are declining. Why?
From the situation above, you can easily find out that the system is crashed or out of date, or something else, I am not qualified to say what it is. Just like computer, if the computer were crashed, the software would not work; if the system is out of date, you cannot install newly developed up-to-date software, or even you can install it, it would work really slowly.
We know that so many people have been doing research on how to learn English, and so many papers have been published, but teachers seems like a lay person, they don’t care about it, or they don’t worry, because they are full time employed and bear no pressure. Student’s results are not their work; there is no practical supervising system to the teachers. And everyone thinks that they can become a teacher as long as they get bachelor degrees, or master degrees.
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