中国的英语教育政策及其作用-新.doc

中国的英语教育政策及其作用 The Policy of English Education and Its Effect in China 黄宗植 Huang Zongzhi 摘要：中国政府制定并采取了一系列英语教育政策，使英语教育在中国各个教育阶段占据重要地位。中国英语教育政策符合国情，实践证明是行之有效的。欲全面提高中国的英语教育水平，英语教育政策今后有待于改进和完善，师资水平有待于提高，教学有待于改革。 Abstract: A series of English education policy has been established and put into effect, which make sure that English education occupies an important place on all the education levels in China. Chinese English education policies are in conformity with its national conditions and have been proved to be workable in practice. In order to make an all-round development in Chinese English education, the improvement of English education policy, the progress of teaching skills and refom of teaching methods are necessary. 在中国中小学和大学进行普遍而大规模地进行英语教育是近30年的事情。外语课在中国各个阶段教育中占据十分重要的地位，而英语在各级各类学校的外语课中占绝对优势地位。目前，中国中小学绝大多数学生外语学的是英语。以吉林省为例，小学共有82.7万多人学习外语,全部是英语;初中学习外语学生数为90.6万多人,其中学习英语的学生数为90.3万多人。 It was as recently as 30 years ago a general and large-scaled English education had its begaining in Chinese primary and secondary schools and universities. Courses of foreign languages occupy a very important place on all levels of education in China. Recently the overwhelming majority of Chinese students in schools and universities are studying English. Take Jilin province as an example, a total of more than 827 thousant premary students are studying English and no one is studying other foreign language and in junior high schools 903 thousant students out of a total of more than 906 thousant are studying English. 30年来，英语课教学工作取得了长足的进步，教学质量有了较大幅度的提高，民众的英语普及程度有一定的提高。这主要缘于中国政府采取一系列强有力的英语教育政策，确保了英语教育的地位。中国政府采取的政策，符合中国国情，经过实践证明是行之有效的。当然，中国的英语教育当前还存在不少问题，需要中国政府继续完善有关政策，保持英语教育地位；加强教师培训，推进教学改革，以不断提高英语教育质量。 For the past 30 years a significant progress has been witnessed in English teaching, the quality of which has been increased and quite an improvement of English popularization has been made among the common people. All this success has come fro