A few years ago, a National People's Congress representative suggested that the college entrance examination cancel the English subjects and change the compulsory English courses for primary and secondary school students into elective courses. He said: "If you calculate based on

A few years ago, a representative of National People's Congress suggested that the college entrance examination cancel the English subjects and change the compulsory English courses for primary and secondary school students into elective courses. He said: "If calculated based on the 8 hours of study time every day, in the best 10 years of a child, nearly 1/5 (18.13%) of his time is spent on English learning."

In fact, this is definitely a conservative estimate. In big cities, children spend much more time studying English than this.

English, is it that important? Yes, in China, it is very important. China is the only country in the world that regards foreign languages ​​as a compulsory subject in the college entrance examination. No country in the world has implemented a foreign language compulsory system like China that combines foreign languages ​​with university entrance examinations, degree awards, master's and doctoral entrance examinations, and professional title promotions.

remember there is a super "inspirational" speech video on the Internet. The speaker talked about the importance of English and shouted out a sentence - learn English well and change your destiny! Countless English teachers and English training institutions have reposted this video crazily, constantly emphasizing to people the intrigue of the four words "changing destiny" to people's hearts!

Seeing this video, the author could not feel any inspirational. As a Chinese, can you change your destiny by learning English well? This is simply irony. However, facing reality, the author has to admit that English does shoulder the mission of changing destiny in our country - if you can't learn English well, you will not be able to enter university to complete your university education; if you can't learn English well, you will not get a degree; if you can't learn English well, you will not even find a job; if you can't learn English well, you will not even be promoted in your future work... This is reality!

One of the author's friends is a university professor who has been responsible for guiding graduates' thesis for several consecutive years. Every time he sees me, he will shake his head and sigh when talking about work - today's college students have too poor Chinese skills. There are a lot of typos and wrong sentences in the paper. A 10,000-word paper is illogical and has no idea what to read. There are good writings, but very few. Some of them wrote well and found someone to write for themselves. It is precisely because of this that the essay writers actually open stores online and charge a considerable fee, just because this industry has quite "prospects".

The new generation of college students has such poor Chinese skills? I can't believe it. If students fail the CET-4 English during college, they will not be able to obtain a degree certificate. Then what is the level of Chinese level for our college students when they graduate?

Isn’t this a strange phenomenon that a country attaches less importance to its native language than its foreign language proficiency?

It is true that in recent years, under the attention of the leadership of the Party and the country, the education of traditional culture has been taken seriously, and every Chinese should have cultural confidence has become a common saying by many people. However, in the actual education process, where does this cultural confidence be reflected? Can it be reflected by holding a few poetry conferences, holding a few traditional culture lectures, and allowing students to read a few traditional culture books?

Entering the education and training center, you will find that English is still the main course of all education and training institutions. Parents pay more than 100,000 yuan a year for tuition fees, but they pay for it. Why? We exclude the factors that want to let children study abroad in the future. The idea of ​​most parents choosing to let their children learn English instead of traditional culture is very simple. If their children learn English well and pass N levels of English certificates, they can go to key junior high schools, key high schools, and key universities in the future.

Shouldn’t our middle schools and universities provide a better learning environment for children with Chinese cultural confidence? Can English be higher than our own language? Where does our cultural confidence reflect in education?

The author has changed several times to work and met many colleagues and leaders who are older than me. These people are more or less hindered on their promotion path because of foreign languages, a "natural enemy".The author has always been full of questions about this. The author’s industry has nothing to do with English. Why does the professional qualification examination require foreign language exams? Is it helpful for the actual work? Many of my leaders have extremely high Chinese skills. However, because of the era they are in, foreign language learning is not popular, and many of them have their promotion opportunities hindered by foreign languages. In 2016, my professional qualification assessment finally got rid of the dilemma of foreign language proficiency test, but my older colleagues have long passed the rising period of their careers and entered a stable period. Professional Qualification Certification has affected their lives, but to them now, it has no meaning.

However, it is not too late to change any time. We like the move to cancel the foreign language exam by non-foreign language professional qualification certification because it is finally no longer a burden for people and can allow more people to go further on the professional path. So how long will it take for English to participate in the college entrance examination, postgraduate examination and doctoral examination as a compulsory course?

It is true that the situation was forced by the situation when the country used English as a compulsory course, because our country's foreign language talents were short of at that time, which had an adverse impact on the country's development. However, after so many years, society has developed to the reality that English talents are everywhere, and graduate students in English majors cannot find jobs, is it necessary for English to continue to exist as a compulsory course?

Of course, the author does not mean that we should abandon foreign language learning. On the contrary, the author believes that English is a very important course. But no matter how important English is, it should not continue to exist as a compulsory course. We can learn from some foreign policies to make foreign language learning an elective course and promote learning in the form of government encouragement.

The author hopes that English will withdraw from the stage of the college entrance examination! Future Chinese children can freely choose to learn foreign languages ​​rather than compulsory learning. I hope that day will come soon!