For a large number of friends born in the 1980s and 1990s and even 2000s, we all know that since we started studying in elementary school, our subjects are divided into main subjects and deputy subjects. The reason is very simple. The main subjects will take the exam in the futur

For a large number of friends born in the 1980s and 1990s and even 2000s, we all know that since we started studying in elementary school, our subjects are divided into main subjects and deputy subjects. The reason is very simple. The main subjects will take the exam in the future. No matter whether it is the high school entrance examination or the college entrance examination, you must spend your time studying. In the end, this score will determine your life direction.

. Relatively speaking, the assessment of the deputy subject is not that strong. Even many subject teachers' classes are occupied by the main subject teachers. What is our main subject? Chinese, mathematics, and English must be the three items. After entering junior high school, chemistry, physics, history, politics, geography, biology, etc. may be added.

But no matter whether you are a liberal arts student or a science student, no matter whether your college entrance examination is 3+2 or 3 plus n, English must run through your entire student career. Obviously, learning English is also a nightmare for many people.

But do you know that over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, not only a large number of students have been learning English, but many people who have grown up and worked must learn English. Why? Whether it is professional title assessment or salary calculation, many companies stipulate that you must have a certain English foundation. If you don’t have an English foundation, you are not considered a high-level talent and you will not get the salary you deserve.

even before, we have even had such jokes, saying that people who practice ancient Chinese must have English proficiency, and chefs who make Chinese cuisine must have English proficiency. Let’s say that, it is too much to be corrected. In a certain era, English is the common language in the world today, and the United States is the most economically developed country in the world. Therefore, only by mastering English can we keep in line with the world.

40 years ago, at the beginning of reform and opening up, there were too few people in the nation who mastered English. Therefore, we must encourage everyone to learn English in an overcorrect way, and set off a wave of learning English for the nation. Only in this way can more people master English, and more English talents emerge, and our economy can develop better.

But the problem is that any policy proposition has its historical limitations, which may have been correct at the time, but today it should be adjusted. The so-called disease changes all kinds of medicines and medicines change all kinds of things. We will never be able to take everything all over the world with one move.

So what are our investments in English learning today? To be honest, are our investment in English a bit too much? The post-70s generation may only learn English when they are in middle school, the post-80s generation may start learning English when they are in third grade, and the post-90s generation should start learning English when they are in first grade, and the majority of post-00s generations and post-10s generations must learn English even when they are in early education.

Many early education institutions and infant training institutions, a big selling point is that we have foreign teachers here, and our foreign teachers are still white and not black, with a very authentic accent, so parents have to spend more money to sign up for classes here.

We all have an anxiety about English, why? The reason is very simple. On the one hand, English is one of the three major subjects, and the scores are not low. If your child wants to pass the college entrance examination and get good results and enter a good school, you must have good English scores.

On the other hand, this is not our native language at all. For most people, learning other people's languages ​​has congenital obstacles. If you don't have such a language environment, you have to spend a lot of time and effort to learn English well.

It is precisely because of this reason that the majority of students and families have invested a lot in learning English. We often say that many students have to go out to make up lessons. You can see the proportion, how many people are there to make up English, and how many families regard English as the main subject of tutoring English. How much heavy burden does this bring to many families? So in the past two years, many people have also been reflecting, should we as Chinese people spend so much time and effort to learn English?

In terms of effect, long-term learning of English certainly makes a considerable number of people in our group master English very skillfully, but there are also many people born in the 1980s and 1990s and 2000s who complained that they had learned English for a lifetime and had been learning English for more than ten years. However, after they really got into work, they found that this English was of no use at all.

or you can simply understand other people's menu when you travel abroad. When you ask for directions, you can communicate with them in English, but the problem is that you have to be in an English-speaking country. If you go to Japan, France and Germany, you may not understand your English.

So many people ask, what is the meaning of it after I spent so long learning English? What’s more important is that any child or student has always limited time and energy. If you spend this time learning English, you can’t spend it on learning Chinese mathematics, and you can’t spend it on literature and art.

And for many people, if you can save time to learn English, can you let yourself master some better skills? Of course, we are not saying that learning English is useless. Our economy has been booming in recent years. We are the world's factory. We have to do a lot of business around the world. Of course, we need a large number of foreign language talents. But the question is whether we need the whole people to learn English?

For some people, they like to master one or even multiple languages ​​very much. If they are interested, they are willing to do this, and they are completely fine. We encourage them to master more languages. However, they are not interested in language learning themselves, and they may not engage in direct dealing with foreigners in their entire lives. So is long-term language learning a waste for him? So in the past two years, NPC deputies and CPPCC members have made suggestions, should we reduce the time we spend on learning English?

The official website of the Ministry of Education also responded to this two days ago, pointing out that the National People's Congress representatives proposed to enhance cultural confidence, increase the reform of Chinese cultural content teaching and reduce the proportion of English teaching. The Ministry of Education said that the proportion of foreign language classes in primary and secondary schools is currently lower than that in Chinese subjects. The 2022 edition of the compulsory education curriculum plan stipulates that the proportion of class hours in each subject is 20% to 22%, mathematics is 13% to 15%, physical education and health is 10% to 11%, and foreign languages ​​is 6% to 8%. In other words, the Ministry of Education clearly stipulates that the duration of learning foreign languages ​​in compulsory education in primary and secondary schools is about one-third of learning Chinese, and even the duration of learning foreign languages ​​is shorter than that of sports and health.

Many parents also have their own questions in their hearts when facing this reply, what? Although it reduces the time to study the English subject, after all, we still have the operation of the two major batons of the junior high school entrance examination. Will we take English during the junior high school entrance examination? Take the exam, do you want to take the English test during the college entrance examination? It also takes a test, and the score is not low.

Although several cities have lowered their English scores, most cities still have the same English status as Chinese mathematics, and everyone has the same scores, so this is a problem for parents. When studying in schools, the proportion of English subjects is short, and the school has to spend three times the time for everyone to learn Chinese instead of English. But the problem is that when it comes to the junior high school entrance examination, everyone’s scores are the same, and 150 points in Chinese and 150 points in English, so what should I do?

If you want to get high scores in English to beat others, you have to make up for the lessons. Even if we have made major changes to the education and training industry, parents still think that I have to make up for the lessons. Because the school has been studying for a short time, I have to learn more outside the school so that my English scores can be improved.

includes two days ago, there was actually another news from the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. It stipulated that if you don’t do this kind of written test at the end of the first and second grades, it will reduce the pressure on children. When you get third, fourth and fifth grades, you only do written tests in Chinese and mathematics. Other subjects such as English are used in other ways to examine them. This is on the surface to reduce blood pressure for children. Many people say it is too good. In the future, Shanghai Primary School will not have the final test in English, so we don’t have to spend a lot of effort to learn English.

But the problem is that if you don’t take the primary school, you have to take the middle school, you have to take the middle school, you have to take the college entrance examination, and those exams that determine your destiny need to take the test, so who dares not learn English? In other words, as long as the final baton of the exam is on, it will not be of much significance to reduce the pressure in your school education. Therefore, many people have put forward a fatal suggestion, so is it possible for us to completely take English from the exam stage?

Some people suggest not to take English in the middle school entrance examination, and some people suggest that the steps are too big. Can we simply reduce English from the main subject to the deputy subject? For example, during the college entrance examination, I scored 150 points in Chinese and mathematics, and I gave it 50 points, 70 points and 80 points in English, and the difficulty is reduced. In this way, students can do not need to focus more energy on English learning. This is a real suggestion to cut off the root of the cause.

Because we are indeed learning English day and night today, the main purpose is not how many people love English, but because everyone hopes to get a high score during the exam, and there have been better suggestions. Today, we are not without a public English level test, we have it. If you are interested, you can take the national open English level test.

For many college students, the school also has requirements. You must get a certain level during your school period before you can graduate, but you do not have rankings. You can get this level with 60 points, and you can get this level with 100 points. As long as you get the level, you can graduate. No one says you have to rank to graduate. Is it possible to transfer this method to the English education of our primary and secondary schools? For those who like to learn English, you can learn English very early. Maybe you can pass this level exam at the age of the second and third grades of junior high school. As long as you pass the college entrance examination, you will add 100 points. If you don’t pass the college entrance examination, you won’t add these 100 points. You can pass this exam in the third grade of junior high school. You can also pass this exam in the third grade of junior high school. This exam can be taken 2 or even 4 times a year. Any student in school can take the exam at any time, and once you pass the college entrance examination, you can add 100 points to the total score.

You don’t need to rank with others. So whether to learn English after getting this level exam is your own wish. If you feel that you are particularly passionate about English, you are willing to study it. You can continue to study, but this has nothing to do with your future high school entrance examination and college entrance examination, and it has nothing to do with whether you can go to a good university.

Because you have already obtained the score you should get, and if you have no interest in English learning, you just want to show your ability and get this score as a stepping stone for the college entrance examination. Then as long as you pass this level exam, you can never learn English again. This saves a lot of time and you can study other subjects.

You can make the college entrance examination scores higher in other subjects. Will this save a lot of students' time? Just like today's physical education exams, most cities have sports extra exams in the college entrance examinations, but relatively speaking, this is not a sort of scores. Most people can get a full mark if you exercise seriously. Since you have test scores, it will inspire many people to take the initiative to exercise physically, but at the same time it does not increase the burden on children. So is it possible that English will be done like this in the future?

After all, for most people, if you hate English learning on the one hand, you think it has delayed a lot of your time, and on the other hand, you may not really engage in any job of dealing with foreigners throughout your life, then you have wasted more than ten years of hard work in learning English, which is really not worth the effort.

On the other hand, even if you really have the need to communicate with foreigners in the future, whether it is a translator or a translation software, I believe it can completely solve your temporary needs. After all, each of us has really limited time and energy. If we spend our energy on this subject, we will naturally spend less time on other subjects.

So do you think after the 40 years of reform and opening up, do we still need to use overcorrect methods to arouse the craze for the whole nation to learn English as before? We are not rejecting English learning, but want to let those who are really interested in English expand their learning, and not use one English learning to bind everyone's hands and feet.