英语：电视媒体暴力的规范英语议论文

Since the breakdown in diplomatic relation between China and the Soviet Union in 1960s, the China Education authority has attached great importance to English education and has set some relevant courses on it from primary school to university (Jiang ). English gradually has become the most popular foreign language in China. However, it is reported that the priority consideration in the recent reform of college entrance examination in China is to

cancel

English

exam’s

contribution

to

total

score

(Zhang Policy

).

makers are eager to change the phenomenon of dump English in China because they have lost their faith in so many years of English learning and considered it a failure. Learning a second language is not a waste of time and what we called failure English education actually benefits us a lot.

“Being an indispensable tool of economic activities, language, as well as other techniques, is an economic resource which individuals and societies can profit from through investment; therefore, like other resources, language has some economic properties, such as value, efficacy, cost and profit” (Jiang 1). Chinese government pays high attention to public investment in English education to improve the personnel resources for the implementation of opening-up economic policy (Jiang ). The great majority of science and technological books and journals are published in English worldwide, so science students in key universities should be able to read academic literature

and write their own research papers in English. English has also become a valuable skill for Chinese to attain higher social status, and an increasing number of students choose to study abroad to access better education. Therefore, personal investment in English leads to the boom of English training industry. However, according to the statistic released by the official website of IELTS (International English Language Testing System), the average score in the spoken part of the examinees from China ranks the last in the 41 major IELTS

countries

(Zhou<

http://news.163.com/13/1027/22/9C7OS9G400014MTN.html>).

Chinese way of English education, despite said to be the most time-consuming with the largest input in the world, has not been able to produce students with satisfactory English proficiency. The evaluation system of English in China is not effective because almost all the students are judged by the standardized exams and they just need to memorize the rigid answers (Aniu < http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/editing-writing-topics/56712-english-education-china.html>).

Although some Chinese think many of them overspend time and money in learning English with manias and the outcome is not satisfying, English benefits our life in other immeasurable way. Western value and lifestyle change our way of thinking as a result of the imported English movies and soap operas. With so many years of English training at school, the well-educated Chinese are able to use English sources online and get

connected to the world by social communication tools. Furthermore, bilingual jobseekers will have advantages in hunting jobs in multinational companies. Learning English in China has been an irreversible tendency not only because of the government’s compelling educational policies, but also because of our need for this global communication tool. There is no doubt that English benefits Chinese individuals for achieving personal goals and it accelerates modernization of the whole country.

Compared to the English education in Japan and South Korea, the mania of learning English in China is not an isolated phenomenon, and they have the same problems as China has in English learning. “In Japan, eigo-kyouiku (English-language education) starts the first year of junior high school and continues at least until the third year of high school.” (Abe )

A

new

upsurge of learning English in South Korea has swept across the whole country. Some parents even bring their children to hospital to have a surgery called small tongue resection to make their tongue more flexible and get rid of Korean

accent

when

they

speak

English.

(Song

<

http://epaper.oeeee.com/G/html/2013-10/29/content_1959593.htm >) All these three countries have invested in English education individually and collectively, but the weakness in listening and speaking is noticeable. Having Faults and weaknesses in English education is common, so Chinese educational policy makers should reform the exam and curriculums in a more positive manner.

“Leaders in the field emphasize the cultural foundations of language, asserting that language study increases linguistic competence and cultural sensitivity” (Ryan & Cooper 122). From the perspective of cultural influence of learning English, Chinese people are greatly changed by western perceptions. Western values and culture provide Chinese people different aspect of thinking and living. The English education in China is not an absolutely failure and the educational policy makers should reform the exam in a more positive way instead of canceling it.

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< http://japanese.about.com/od/japanesecultur1/a/070100.htm >

Aniu. “English Education in China” 7 Dep. 2007. Web.

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Jiang, GuiYing 江桂英. Zhongguo Yingyu Jiaoyu 中国英语教育

（English Education in China: From Economic Perspective）.

Xiamen: Xiamen University Press, 2012

Ryan, Kevin, and James M. Cooper. Those Who Can Teach.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007 Song, Jinxu. “东亚地区教学和中国有啥异同”

南方都市报 29 Oct. 2013

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< http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2013-10/25/c_125598242.htm >

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