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I registered to the site several days ago, and find this site is very useful because people can submit the whole article and receive advices from other people. Today I just try to submit my writing for practice, everyone are welcome to give advices. My English is poor. Below is my essay.
English Education In China
If somebody asks the question: which course do the Chinese students spend the most time on? The answer is English. And even after you graduate and get a job, you will still need to spend certain time on English study. However, I have to say, the English education is not successful in China. So, what are the reasons?
First, I think we lack enough qualified English teachers. For examples, as other Chinese students in my age, I began to study English in my junior high school as an obligation when I was 12 year’s old. At that time, my English teacher was only 18, just graduated from senior high school. In rural area, most of the English teachers have never traveled abroad, or spoken to any foreign people in English. So they can only teach you how to recite the textbook, but can’t tell you how to read the original English newspaper, how to write in a properly and how to speak English in a practical way, all of which are very important for the kids who start to learn a new language.
Second, the evaluation system for English education in China is not effective. Almost all of the students are judged by the standardized exam. In this kind of test, for a certain question, students just need to pick one correct answer out of several given choices. The worse thing is that, some teachers even teach their students how to pick up the correct choice by without reading the question completely. By this way, it trend to train a lot students who can get a high score in the English test, but can not read, write and speak English correctly. For example, when came to US the first time, a housekeeper in our building asked me, “how are you doing?” I replied, “I am doing nothing.”
Fortunately, the Education department is aware these kinds of defects. It is said that new policies have been released to increase the role of writing, reading, listening and oral English in both English study and exam. It also requires that the students are able to read English new paper, listening foreign radio and talk to foreign people in a basic way. On the other hand, more qualified teachers are trained.