The Exploration of the Advantages and the Drawbacks of Private English Education in China

摘要

Alongside the tendency of globalization and more communication with the world, learning English for Chinese people is not only only about the original purposes of taking English examinations for accessing higher education or professional titles, but also for some multiple purposes, such as learning English for studying abroad, traveling overseas, working with foreigners. In this situation, Chinese traditional public English educational pattern focusing on grammatical learning and English examinations cannot satisfy the various English learning needs of Chinese people anymore in modern Chinese society. However, it is extremely difficult to achieve Chinese nation-wide public English education innovation to satisfy an increasing number of English learning needs of Chinese people in a short time. To comply the demands of more targeted English learning from Chinese people and to remedy the deficiency of current Chinese traditional public English education, more and more private English educational organizations have established in China, especially in some well-developed cities, such as Shanghai, Beijing. These private English educational organizations usually conduct their English education in small-sized class, even one-to-one class. Furthermore, compared with Chinese traditional public English education system, the English teachers of these private organizations are not only Chinese people majored in English, but also English native-speakers from English-speaking countries. Nevertheless, even though the organizations indeed can provide the English learners with more flexible and advanced English learning strategies and better educational resources, the private English education is still immature in China. Since there are not national standards to regulate the various private English educational organizations in China, the qualities of these organizations are patchy. This study would focus to explore the advantages and drawbacks of current Chinese private education and provide some professional suggestions to make the English private education more efficient and rational in China.