It may be that there are more topics of English learning recently, and the Weibo and video numbers of these days always push me some English content. One of the most commented and hotly discussed topics on these microblogs and videos is: What is the use of learning English? Even myself, a few days ago, because of this incident, I fought with a certain education big V for eight hundred rounds.
Some mothers may remember that during the two sessions, a CPPCC member put forward such a topic:
Flipping through the following comments, netizens are also holding their own opinions and arguing:
Swipe left and right to see more A friend who is also a public account blogger witnessed my argument with the education big V, and shared with me a message he received last week:
People who know me well know that I am not usually a person who likes to lift bars. But seeing this kind of topic really stimulated the "soul of the bar spirit" in my heart, and I couldn't help but want to bar. Although I don't know what kind of education, occupation, and growth background this user has, I can feel that English may have had an indelible impact on his life. Otherwise, it is really difficult for me to understand how a language and a tool can be labeled as a "slave education". He said: What courses should be learned in primary school, secondary school, university, and graduate students? Raise the bar very responsibly: not only English, but also Chinese and mathematics must be from primary to large. Even my undergraduate major in journalism art has to study calculus, linear algebra, probability theory... He said: Chinese medicine majors and Chinese literature majors must learn English, so should we learn Chinese medicine and Chinese literature from foreigners? Very responsible to raise the bar: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton... These elite schools have majors in East Asian/Chinese Chinese and history, and have produced many famous scholars.
Interested mothers can search for "Harvard Yenching Society"
In fact, the "English uselessness theory" has a long history. As early as a few years ago, a blogger with millions of fans on Weibo proposed that "English is a waste skill":
...... What is "elite academic level, English must not only be proficient, but also fine"?! Which children are children at the "level of the common people" and which children are children of the "elite level"? Or does he mean that children don't have to learn English when they are 6 years old, and then start learning when they become elites at 36 years old? If it is the latter, then he certainly does not know that learning language requires following such a thing as a "language sensitive period". The education big V I was arguing about held a similar view. She believes that English is only used by the elite and is not needed at all in the lives of ordinary people. So, I would like to ask this big V: according to this logic - what is the use of learning mathematics? Even addition and subtraction within 10 is not necessary to learn, take out the calculator and press it! What is the use of learning chinese? Most people don't need to use words in their lives, do you still expect to travel back to ancient times one day?
Moreover, taking a step back, even if it is true as she said, only the elite can use it. So are we still in the compulsory education stage, so we make an assertion: so-and-so's child is an elite in the future and needs to learn English; so-and-so's child is a civilian in the future and does not need to learn English? So where is the fairness of education? In fact, when it comes to practicality, I really think there is a point that is very unreasonable: the course of university Chinese, for many students of science and engineering colleges and majors, is either an elective course for credits or not at all. You may be surrounded by classmates, colleagues, friends (and maybe even yourself): when you go to school, you have to write a paper for several months, and you are worried about baldness; after work, it takes a lot of effort to write a year-end summary. If you must use "whether you can use it" as a criterion for judging whether you need to learn, then I strongly recommend that no matter what major you are, whether you read undergraduate, master's, doctorate, university language/modern Chinese/writing foundation... Such courses should be taken as compulsory courses, which must be learned every year and tested every year. Language is the mother tongue of the Chinese and the carrier of our five-thousand-year cultural heritage; mathematics is the foundation of all natural and technical disciplines, the cornerstone of cultivating thinking ability; English is a tool for exploring and reading the world, and is the key to opening the external world. In my opinion, these three courses are warm for the children of this generation and should... No, it must be mastered, lack! One! No! can!
Whether everyone agrees with my point of view or not, whether the country will completely cancel the English class in primary and secondary schools in the future, as far as I am concerned, I will definitely insist on letting Nuan Nuan learn English - not only to learn, but also to learn well. Of course, although I oppose the idea of "not learning English", I have to say that I still partially agree with the problems of English education in primary and secondary schools that many people complain about. Since the double reduction, the warm on-campus English class has been reduced from 5 lessons per week to 3 lessons per week, and the amount of homework is almost zero. Especially at the beginning of this semester, I flipped through the warm English textbooks and couldn't help but scratch my heart. English classes in public elementary schools are so easy now! 3 English lessons per week, one lesson every two classes, one lesson to learn a sentence pattern. And when we went to school, the English class at least learned phonetic transcription and grammar, nuan Nuan is now in the fourth year, or only teach some simple dialogue.
Like this grammar knowledge point, I can only take her to engage! In fact, since there is no online foreign teacher class, if I don't force Nuan Nuan to have an English conversation with me, she can hardly speak a few words of English except for memorizing a few texts. I have also talked about it in previous articles, the essence of English is a language, the biggest role of language is to communicate and read, and the purpose itself should not be an exam. When children maintain certain good listening, speaking, reading and writing habits every day, they may not be worse than children who "test" to adulthood. English is to be learned, but not for exams, but for practical purposes. As a language tool, integrating English into life is the most important meaning of our learning English.
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