Http://news.qq.com January 17, 2005 07:58 Xinhuanet
88% of the public believes that "the current college students have generally declined, and Chinese should be more important than English learning."
On January 8th, the National College English IV and six-level exams once again exploded the leakage rumors. For a time, this test has been held again in the past 20 years and has become the focus of everyone. To this end, China Youth Daily Social Survey Center and Sina Campus Channel jointly launched the investigation of "How do you think of the 46th level exams, just two days, the participation of 4,986 public.
Student distress
There was a lot of post on the Internet: a pair of college students, boy gave birth to a number of disadvantages: poor, temper, even "good color" ... The girl does not change the original intention, still tender . Finally, the boy said a word, and the girl was sad and indignant after heard. The stone is shocking is: "I haven't been there."
This black humor listened to some exaggeration, but it was very imaged to describe the "Dynamic Status" of English 46 Certificates in today's college students. Although the Ministry of Education has never had relevant regulations, most colleges and universities in China will hook English four or six test results with degrees. I want to graduate the degree, and the English four or six is a non-can't block the road.
A netizen who claimed to be "half a master" did not get a degree certificate because of the sixth level of English. Although he participated in a large number of practices during his reading, he published 5 professional papers. According to the school stipulates that a professional papers have reached the requirements during the postgraduate period.
The CCTV "Temporal Survey" is also undergoing investigations found that 29.7% of non-English professional college students will spend most of the time during the school or even almost all times in English learning. Obviously, the 46th level was originally a test of the English level of college students, which has greatly deviated from its original intention.
Teacher's troubles
Since the 1990s, all colleges have participated in 211 project evaluation, of which the English four or six exams have been further given more content and become an important standard for assessing teaching quality. College teachers are also a sense of helplessness: English as a tool, in the college curriculum and the real society, some "too expanded".
A well-known rural areas of the Renmin University are in some informal occasions, "I have learned English now, I have to learn English, there is no time to learn my law." The results of this survey also show that 54.48% of students often use other courses to prepare four or six exams.
In addition, Professor Chen, who has college mathematics has the same troubles. Every time I hope that the students will realize some ideas under their guidance, he is hesitant. "If you have some time to implement these ideas, you may get some interesting results. But I know, just in English, they can't get a master's degree. I have to make the way to English."
Distortion of the exam
Despite public English in various universities, this survey found that 43.7% of people registered in the Experts outside the school in order to cope with English four or six exams. Teacher Xiong Yu, Beijing Yanyuan Jinghua Language Education Research Center pointed out that the development of the 46th level of exams now, has become a testic test. Preparing for the 46th exams to make a certain help for students' vocabulary and enhance reading capabilities, but the practical application ability of English is basically unwinding. "OneCarcomeOnecargo, Twocarpengpeng, People." It is hard to imagine that this is a sentence written in a essay in English test. And his intention is to describe the scene of a car accident. Despite some extreme, we can't deny that Chinese students who are used to a choice, smashing the grammar points, after learning for more than ten years, still unable to express their own ideas.
Examination skills training, "one vote veto" assessment standard, which has changed the English four-six-level exam, with anything to bring to the students? CCTV "Temporal Survey" results show that 61.6% have expressed the adoption of the English four-six-level exam, although the exam passed, the interest of English is reduced. Today, the 46th examination has become an industry, from the organization of the examination and accepting the registration fees, to the training class, and the publications, the school-printed counseling materials and books are more difficult to count. The classmate of the 2000-level king of Peking University told reporters that when I went to Haidian Book City, the second floor, the third floor selling literature, the franchise store of art books, now go, now become a teaching tutor Oh, not English 46 is the postgraduate counseling.
In the survey, 67.38% of the public said that in order to prepare a four or six exams, it costs more than 100 yuan. Among them, 18.53% of people spend more than 1,000 yuan. Some scholars have recently talked about this in the "Southern Weekend", saying that he believes that "English 46 exams have a great contribution to GDP every year."
Compared with the strength of English, Chinese is particularly lonely. People are constantly passing the exam "prove" with their own English skills, almost no one is.
Mr. Lin, who has worked in human resources for many years, has a deep feeling: Sometimes he receives a resume of certain college students, discovering the phrase of statements, and obviously have traces affected by English. Especially some undergraduate students, the written Chinese characters are not as good as the primary school students ten years ago, and the wrong words are full. "When I was a primary school student 20 years ago, Pang Zhonghua's words were our favorite. How many students do you know what Pang Zhonghua is?"
In this online survey, "the current college students have generally declined, and" Chinese should be more important than English learning "points have received 88% of public support.
In another viewpoint of investigation, 19.11% felt that it took a lot of time to learn English during school, but there were not many opportunities for graduation. This does not help but question: ignore the most common language learning, and use most of the efforts to learn in the future, even if you only think from a practical point of view, is it inverted?
At the same time, while domestic Chinese is lost, overseas "China Hot", "Chinese Heat" continues to heat up. Professor, Secretary-General of the World Chinese Teaching Society, in the "Interaction and Complementary Interaction between the New Century", the interaction with the interactiveness and complement of the domestic and foreign " 2,300 universities opened a Chinese course.
Behind a language fever and cold is the competition of economic strength and political influence between regions. Yang Guang, who is the Ministry of Education Language and Text Application Management, has recently pointed out: "In the context of economic globalization, language culture in the world faces competitive situation, the culture carried by English and English is strong, with English The value concept of spreading and using, English culture is expanded worldwide. The space and its status and role of the Chinese language are still in vulnerable under globalization. "
English is
In the face of the Test Tools, the Test Tools became the trend of "test tool", the trend of "knocking on the body", January 8, the two domestic well-known foreign language teaching professors, the Fudan University and Shanghai Foreign Mandarin University, even Site suggestion "This exam may wish to cancel!" "In fact, there is no four or six levels, will definitely have another test." Mr. Wu believes that cancellation is not a solution.
The university's four-six English grade exam is the focus of people's disputes, and its background is the objective reality of "English". Harvard University, Dr. Yan Yunxiang, who graduated from Harvard University, has analyzed this phenomenon: Why is English a so important threshold? This is a problem involving social flow and social layering --- can flow through the English exam. After all, people are limited, competition is also very intense, such, Chinese card can't live, English can I do? Cancellation is also good, reform, according to the current logic of our society, you want to go to the society, you want to find a decent job, you have to go to college, you have to pass English 46. In this sense, the English four-six-level exam will not be more red as the cream's red leaves, it is really hard to say.
survey data
During the university, are you using other courses to prepare a four or six exams?
I often do 548%.
Occasionally 29.10%
Never 16.42%
Do you sign up for the proletary counseling between the school in order to prepare a four or six level exams?
Didn't participate 56.30%
Attend 43.70%
In order to prepare a four or six exams, how much is you spent?
21.12% of 100 yuan
100 ~ 300 yuan 19.96%
1,000 yuan or more 18.53%
300 ~ 600 yuan 16.71%
600 ~ 1000 yuan 12.18%
Did not spend any money 11.50%
For English four or six, do you agree with the following statements (can be selected)?
The English exam determines whether the students can get a degree certificate, this is a unreasonable 24.17%.
I spent a lot of time to learn English in school, but there is no more opportunities for graduation 19.11%.
Now the students have too much attention to English and ignore Chinese learning 18.01%.
Learn English is not very good, but should not affect the professional class 16.65%
The purpose of the four-six level exam is good, but the form needs to improve 15.25%.
The four-six-level exam can effectively urge college students to learn English, which is a positive 6.81%.
Do you think compared with English learning, should Chinese should pay more attention?
It should be, the current college students have generally decline 88%.
It doesn't matter, Chinese is our mother tongue, it will be 8.86%
No, English in the future is more than 3.14% in the future.
(Reporter Tang Yonglin Xie Yang)
Reprinted from http://news.qq.com/a/20050117/000241.htm
