I think English should be popularized, but the college entrance examination doesn't have to be that high. Why do I think we should learn English for everyone? The following is analyzed from two aspects.
1. From a national point of view, learning English is the top priority of national development. Now is the era of world trade and global economic integration. It is the general trend and necessary for China to go to the world and even lead the world to communicate in English. Among the 224 countries and regions in the world, 14 countries have English as their mother tongue, 73 countries have English as their official language, and about 175 countries can speak and communicate in English. The population who can speak English is about 2 billion. And these data continue to increase.
Second, scientific and technological productivity is a country's hard power. China's economy is now advancing by leaps and bounds, and it has become the second largest economy in the world. However, there is still a big gap between China and western countries, especially the United States. If China wants to catch up with advanced countries, it must learn from their science and technology. Therefore, it is necessary to master English.
Third, our country needs to introduce foreign resources and technology, and also requires us to know how to communicate in English.
Fourth, why should everyone learn English? Because only popularization can develop rapidly. In addition, only on the basis of popularization can more and better talents emerge. If it is not popularized, the range of talents who are excellent in various fields and proficient in English is small and the probability is low.
Fifth, most importantly, China is now moving towards the forefront of the world. The demand for resources, technology and top-notch talents is very urgent! It's urgent! Therefore, it is urgent and necessary to force the whole people to learn English!
Finally, add one sentence. Some people think that China is so powerful now, why don't other countries learn Chinese? In fact, besides Chinese, there are about 200 million people learning Chinese. But the government has not designated it as mandatory. International communication is a mutual process. We should learn English, and foreigners will also learn Chinese. The key problem is that our country is really not very strong now. As far as the rapid economic development and leading the world are concerned, it is only a matter of nearly ten years.
So as far as the current situation is concerned, China has not yet reached the stage when the country stopped learning English. Of course, this is just my personal opinion.
Personally speaking, learning English is the first need for personal development. At present, primary and junior high schools in China are all compulsory education, which is equivalent to 1.000% popularization. The admission rate of college entrance examination in 20 18 was 8 1. 13%, of which the undergraduate admission rate was 43.3%. In other words, higher education is almost universal in China at present. Entering higher education means that learning has entered the field of professional application. And no matter which professional field, almost all use English. Because the underlying principles of almost all professional fields are created by foreigners. For example, the chemical industry or molecular materials, such as sound, light, electricity and nuclear in physics, and others, such as medicine, geography, archaeology, film and art, are all the same. Not to mention the computer field.
Of course, some people muddle along in college instead of studying. That's his personal problem, not learning English.
Second, it is inevitable to be proficient in English if you want to develop in a certain field. For example, consulting documents, publishing papers and academic exchanges are inseparable from English.
As for some people who say that the translation team can be cultivated, it is a layman. In the professional field, it is not only a question of translation, but also a question of professional understanding. To train a team into a professional translator, it is better to let people in the professional field learn English by themselves. What's more, there are so many professional fields, and a group of translation teams should be trained in each field. This is wasteful and meaningless. Translation can only be applied to general communication.
Even if translation is used under ordinary circumstances, it is necessary. How can I understand fluently and happily? For example, I don't know English at all, so I can only read foreign works in Chinese. For example, when I read Freud's Introduction to Psychoanalysis recently, I always feel that some places are unclear. I will think in my heart, is this the original intention of the author? Extremely unhappy
Thirdly, from the employment environment, there are more and more foreign companies and joint ventures in China, and there are more and more opportunities for individuals to work abroad. Knowing English will be the guarantee of work development.
Fourth, at present, the international movement of population is becoming more and more common, and there are more and more opportunities for individuals to contact foreigners in their daily lives. It will become more and more normal to speak English.
Of course, judging from the current employment situation in China, most people do not use English at work. The job of these people is to directly face the products near the downstream of the application. If they are content with the status quo, they don't need English. However, judging from the development trend of science and technology, there is a great trend that these jobs are replaced by mechanization. For personal development, improving the workspace will also be largely related to English.
Compared with developed countries, there is still a big gap in China's current industrialization. China's compulsory promotion of citizens' academic qualifications and compulsory implementation of English are essentially aimed at improving the quality of our citizens and narrowing the gap with developed countries.
Some people say that English is only CET-4 and they can't graduate from college. How can I find a job? This is only the reality of compulsory popularization of English in China, not the reason for learning English.
3. Learning English will not be totally westernized. First, partial westernization is the inevitable development of world civilization. Global integration will be the inevitable result of the development of world civilization. All countries and nations in the world will have cultural exchanges and integration. Therefore, China will be westernized and foreign countries will be orientalized (China), which is an inevitable trend.
It is normal and necessary for us to learn good things from the west. Just to identify its dross.
From the perspective of China history. There was no world communication in feudal times, and China was dominant, which led to the extreme backwardness of natural science. This is one of the fundamental reasons for China's passive beating. China's reform and opening-up is precisely a measure to seek development and growth. In fact, the advantages of China's reform and opening-up far outweigh the disadvantages.
Second, the East and the West are only differences in concept form, and the core depends on the social essence of China and the West.
Objectively speaking, the west is capitalism and China is socialism. However, western science and technology are more developed and the educational model is more advanced. Should we study? Of course you have to study. As long as we ensure that the purpose of our study is to serve all the citizens of China, to seek the welfare of all citizens, and not to serve some privileged classes or consortia.
That is, as long as the essence of socialism remains unchanged, westernization is only a means or concept.
4. Will all China people learn English and become vassals of the West? I don't think so. This is an ideological problem of culture. This is also a concern of most people.
First, the foundation of culture lies in words. While learning English, we have not lost our study of Chinese. Since Chinese is our mother tongue, our ability to use Chinese is definitely much higher than that of English. Unless you lived abroad as a child, that's another matter. From a practical point of view, the same is true. Even if a person studies English and goes to 8th grade, he still uses Chinese in his work and life. Because our writing foundation has not been lost, and it is still very strong.
Second, China's environment is a language environment in which Chinese is the mother tongue, and in this environment, Chinese cannot be replaced by English. This is the reason why we can't speak English after studying English for more than ten years. As far as Rainbow Sicong is concerned, he has been studying abroad since he was 15 years old, and his English should be very good. But now he is in China and still speaks Chinese all day.
In other words, the essence of learning English is to develop in English, not to replace Chinese with English. This is determined by China's cultural environment and cannot be changed artificially.
Of course, English is more accurate than Chinese in ideographic sense. We often see some high-level people interspersed with some English in Chinese conversations in the media. That's just an accurate expression, and it can't be simply considered as a cultural invasion.
Thirdly, Chinese and English are two different language systems, which are incompatible with each other. This fundamentally determines that English can never replace Chinese.
But I think there will be mutual penetration between the two languages. Do we often chat? Okay？ 、? No? Wait, this is the necessity of world cultural exchange. This does not mean that China's institutions are weakening. No culture can remain absolutely pure and free from any pollution. Unless it is isolated.
To sum it up. It is the development trend of our country and the world that we learn English. Learning English will not lead to the loss of China culture and become a vassal of the West.
5. Personal views on English learning in primary and secondary schools First of all, English will still be a compulsory course.
China still has a long way to go to catch up with or even surpass the developed countries. Judging from the current policy trends in China, the next stage will further enhance the strength of higher education in China. Then, English will remain compulsory for a long time.
Second, the weight of English in the college entrance examination will be reduced.
Primary and middle school students in China are forced to learn English to a great extent. In essence, this will reduce students' learning motivation and inhibit students from learning other subjects. After lowering the score of English college entrance examination, you can spare some time for studying other subjects. Students' interest in other disciplines, especially natural science, will increase, which will help students develop in the direction of natural basic theory.
After students enter the university, with the in-depth development of their majors, their understanding of English will become more and more profound. At this time, students' thinking and emotion are close to maturity and reality, so they will learn English independently.
Judging from the development trend of national education, in order to promote the in-depth development of China's scientific field, the management and assessment of universities will become more and more strict. It can be speculated that more and more attention will be paid to the publication of English papers and the defense of graduation professional English in the future.
Third, the state will further increase investment in basic theory and application fields and raise wages in these fields. So as to stimulate students' interest in learning English and change forced learning into active learning.