英语教育在中国未来的发展趋势(二)

英语教育在中国未来的发展趋势

The future development trend of English education in China

First Chapter 一Introduction

    Chinese English education began in the British missionaries in China in early nineteenth Century, and Chinese own itself English education is generally in 1862 Tungwen College which was established as the official start。By 1903, it began to open a foreign language class at China's large and medium schools. After the establishment of People's Republic of China, the state made a seven year plan for foreign language education in 1964.

"English is became the first language first time in education in our country" s school". At the beginning of twenty-first Century, with Beijing's successful bid to host the Olympic Games, China joined the WTO, the third high tide of Chinese learning English has come. There are at least two hundred million people in China who are learning English in the same language and the same cultural background In a conservative way, That can be described as the most in the history of human that learning foreign language. China has become a "super power" in foreign language teaching", but whether can be the world strongest nation in English teaching, that needs the joint efforts of us. And it is part of this effort to Accurate grasp the times context of Chinese English education, and to understand its development trend. This is the purpose of this article. We will first have the whole world in view macro education thoughts, then to introduce the development trend of foreign language teaching theory research, last to describe the characteristics of the era of the Chinese English education that become increasingly clear.

Under the world’s background of education, the influence of the theoretical circle of foreign language teaching, and the impetus of the change of China's national conditions, English teaching content and teaching mode of diversified development trends became a new development trend. Most important of all is summarized, Can be summed up in the market, socialization, examination oriented, oral, bilingual, information, virtualization and diversification, such as eight features, The following are described separately.

First Chapter一、Marketization

    With the transformation of China's economy from planned economy to market economy, and with the historical changes of Chinese Society, the pattern of Chinese English education has great changes. In 1978 as a turning point in history, the main theme before is the class struggle in the Chinese society, then it is the development of the economy. China's English education server for the political before the reform and opening up, after it serve for the development of economic. Now China's economy is a market economy, therefore, English education is bound to be affected by the changes in the market economy and the impact of the statute. For example: due to the sharp increase in the total amount of talent market and the increase in the number of English talent, it makes foreign language learning boom wave a wave, the foreign language department opened more and more new professional, including foreign trade, commerce, science and technology, Si and international law etc, The development of Social English School, foreign language training institutions continue to pour in, the English books market varieties greatly enriched and diversified. All of these show that the Chinese English education has begun to enter the market with the social and economic development of the market era. 

First Chapter二、Socialization

Socialization is the inevitable result of marketization, mainly reflect in the teaching subject, teaching resources, teaching standards and eva luation means and so on. Socialization of main body of teaching Performance as the original National School including college, middle school, primary school, kindergarten etc, the dominance of English education has been broken. Now the pattern is National schools at all levels, all levels of private schools, all kinds of social institutions and private capital and foreign capital investment in the construction of a variety of training institutions Coexistence, compete with each other, complement each other. Most English teachers of national school system to participate in social class teaching activities, both the school organization, there are social institutions to recruit part-time, as well as the teacher's own business. Student's situation are similar, usually study English in normal school, evening, weekend, holiday is in the social various training department, the remedial class English class. There are a lot of people, or for promotion, or for job seekers, to participate in various projects on the English Learning Society in a variety of ways. Educational resources included teachers, schools, teaching materials, and other tangible and intangible social material and intellectual power, to play a role in the whole social English education system. The socialization of educational standards and eva luation methods, refers to the workplace on the basis of the recruitment of units in the standard of English is not only the level of qualifications, social English proficiency test, as well as the recruitment of units to set their own English test. 

First Chapter三、Test oriented

    In spite of the criticism for the examination oriented education every year can be heard without end, but the exam oriented education must have its irresistible historical reasons and realistic demand. Maybe the exam oriented education is not as scary as some critics say, after all, China's English education has been steadily developing and flourishing, perhaps this is the only realistic choice of the Chinese English education in this particular historical period. In any case, the reality cannot be avoided, From primary school to middle school, then to the University, and the graduate students, doctoral students, along the way is the beginning of the English exam, college entrance examination in English, English senior high school entrance examination, college four, six English, etc. Plus the overseas tropical GRE, TOEFL, IELTS and other international English exam, and all kinds of English Grading Test, Examination has become an unavoidable reality in the English education of China. A variety of unavoidable English test has become a milestone in the course of English learning for Chinese learners of English. It produced the negative effects of the examination in the same time, but also has produced a huge driving force on the Chinese English education. How to deal with the negative effects of examination oriented education is a problem that the Chinese English education has to face in the long term.

First Chapter四、Colloquial

Before the reform and opening up, It is mainly written in English for Chinese English education, But since the beginning of the new century, The demand for direct dialogue between Chinese and foreigners has increased dramatically, English spoken is highlights. In view of the change of the social demand, they are in the first place for the English listening and speaking ability, from school and social English teaching, individual English learning, English publishing industry, all kinds of popular media publicity and official policy orientation and so on.< The Requirements of College English Curriculum > propose that：“In the above three levels, taking into account the vast territory of our country，the situation of different regions and universities is different, it divided into three levels for the requirements of College English teaching, General requirements, higher requirements and higher requirements. Listening, speaking, reading, writing, translation, the training of this five kinds of ability, all colleges and universities should pay special attention to the cultivation and training of listening and speaking ability. The importance of oral English teaching has been fully established. Chinese English teaching has always been to read and write, whether to keep pace with the times and get rid of the inertia of the traditional teaching mode, turning to "listening, speaking, reading and writing and paying equal attention to the new teaching mode of English Teaching, In order to meet the needs of the Chinese Society for the application of English and the new English talents, It will be a severe test of the teaching of English in China. 

First Chapter五、Bilingual