Straits Times: The Chinese are still enthusiastic about this matter

Singapore's "Straits Times" July 16 article, original topic: Despite the government's ban, Chinese people's enthusiasm for learning English will not diminish English

English is the core course of teaching in primary and secondary schools in China, and it is also a must -have subject for the college entrance examination. After the tuition class was banned in July last year, anxious parents began to find new methods to improve their children's scores of core subjects including English.

Last month, New Oriental Education Group began to live on bilingual live broadcast. It was hosted by the former teachers and mainly sold agricultural products. At the same time, it also taught English in an informal way. It turns out that these live broadcasts are welcomed by netizens, and they ask the host to speak English more. For example, the host will describe the meat they sell with the English word "Mouth-Watering". Netizens commented that these "English courses" were very creative and also showed the application of English in daily life. Some netizens said: "This really shows that learning can be interesting and useful. I remember that the English class in school is not the case."

After the banned tutoring, some parents now sign up for their children to participate in English drama schools, and many of them have used to be tuition centers in the past. Li Hua, a 43 -year -old Beijing resident, is such a parent, and her daughter is in middle school. Ms. Li, who is engaged in tourism, said: "We don't speak English at home, and I don't know if watching English TV shows the best way to learn language. The impact is good. Mastering English will create more for my daughter in the future Occupational opportunities. It is also necessary now, because all the main exams, including college entrance examinations and graduate exams, require excellent English scores. "

In Shanghai, 47 -year -old Mr. Yuan (Yin) runs an English drama center for primary and secondary school students. He said that the number of admission was increased by 30%compared to 6 months ago when he first started the school. He said: "Parents hope that we will help their children practice spoken English in drama performances and speeches."

White -collar workers, including programmers, said that English is closely related to their daily work, such as talking to overseas colleagues or online research in English. The 28 -year -old programmer Zheng Lang said: "Most of the information about programming on the Internet is English. If I want to know the latest trend of the algorithm, I need to better grasp this language." He and friends were established. An English group, meet once a week and communicate in English. They also carried out rotation and distributed readings about computer programming, all of which are English. (Author Cheng Wei (Sound), translated by Chen Junan)

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