1.1 Background of the Research探讨背景
随着经济全球化进程的加速，英语开始发挥越来越重要的影响，在中国，英语论文，特别是在加入世界贸易组织。英语，为世界各地的投资者的重要一环，英语论文网站，与其他国家做生意是很有用的Along with the accelerative process of economic globalization, English beginsto play a more and more important role in China, especially after it joined the WTO.English, as a vital link for investors all over the world, is useful for doing businesswith other countries. Secondary school years were an important stage of learningEnglish. As a result, many nations pay close attention to the instruction of thislanguage at junior middle schools.English teaching has a long history in the People’s Republic of China. It wasLin Zexu who was the first person to realize the importance of learning English inChina. After the Opium War, he had witnessed the advanced equipments of developedcountries and hoped to study science and technology from these countries. In fact,English was one of the necessary conditions to learn advanced technology. As a result,Lin Zexu put forward the proposal of learning English in China. However, the QingGovernment did not accept the suggestion. Even so, this event had producedfar-reaching effects in Chinese history. After the Second Opium War failed, aChancellor by the name of Zuo Zongtang knew the importance of studying Englishand presented this proposal to the King. The proposal was approved immediately byTongzhi. Thus, Chinese set to studying English in order to learn the advancedtechnology of western countries. English teaching was firstly seen in church schoolsin China, which was established by missionaries of the developed countries. It was inthe 1980s that English became a compulsory course in all schools. Students had totake a test in English in all the entrance examinations. Then the Chinese Governmentruled that the college students had to pass College English Test Band 4 to get abachelor degree.Children began to learn English since they were in the kindergarten in China.All the college students kept studying it more than fifteen years. Thus, they hadmastered plenty of English vocabularies and sentence patterns in the course oflearning. However, they could not make full use of what they already knew at theopportune moment. Thus, there were a lot of dummy English learners, who could notexpress themselves well in good English.In fact, English teachers were accustomed to teaching students grammars andvocabularies and ignoring the comprehensive ability in the class. Teachers spent mostof the time talking but at the same time students sat there silently. Teachers arrangedthe curriculum contents according to the standards of exams instead of students’interests and experiences. As a result, the classroom atmosphere was cold by and large.This kind of class was teacher-centered, which was harmful to the development ofstudents’ ability of social intercommunication.The basic aim of compulsory Education in the English Curriculum NewStandards of 2017 was to encourage and train students' interests in English, to helpstudents build confidence, and to develop students’ efficient learning strategies andautonomous learning abilities. It also consisted of grasping the basic Englishknowledge of listening, speaking, reading and writing, which was helpful to improvestudents’ ability of comprehensive English application. It concentrated on cultiva |
