Jay Walker on the world's English mania | Video on TED.com:
"Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- 'the world's second language' -- by the thousands."
What I promised to show you... people chanting English sentences.... What do you think??? Please leave a comment!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
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According to my personal experience, English is important to Chinese students, mainly in National University Entrance Exam (GaoKao), which many students regard as the very chance to grab their destiny in their own hands, especially for those whom are born and grow up in under-developed areas. Good score in English exams lead to possible good GaoKao results. Outstanding GaoKan result is the passport to good universities. Diploma of good universities in big cities (ex. Qinghua University and Peking University in Beijing; Fudan University and JiaoTong University in Shanghai) makes it possible to find a job there (not necessary decent nowadays, because of the furious competition and lack of high level job posts ), and then life there. This is what Chinese students believe the way or the logic which changes their lives and English plays big role there.
ReplyDeleteEnglish also provides Chinese students the quality indispensable to escape from China. Most of the students so believe harbor an American dream at the very beginning of their English studying. They get this dream form their peers or they automatically receive this instruction from their parents or just make themselves a part of a tenacious unstoppable trend, blindly. China is educating more college graduates than it can consume. And the lost is tremendous.
The English learning and education pattern in china is sick but reasonable. It is kind of culture colonization we asked for ourselves.