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Will the International Business World Learn Chinese? OR Chinese Business Executives have to Learn English? English Language Education in China

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Will the International Business World Learn Chinese?OR

Chinese Business Executives have to Learn English?

English Language Education in China

Despite the Importance placed by Central Government on the English, The Language Knowledge performance is poor and is really struggling. Beijing is placing a strong emphasis on learning English. It's estimated there are now 90,000 native English teachers in the country, and that the private English training market exceeded 5 billion US dollars in 2014.

Advancing to the highest levels of education also requires strong English skills, with 25% of the Gao Kao Score being based on English proficiency, and universities and employers outright denying some applicants who don't test well enough in English.

Many National & International reports declare that Chinese Students Excel at Learning English Grammatical Structure through rote memorization, however they nonetheless struggle to speak the language orally due to a lack of emphasis on conversation & Vocabulary Comprehension.

What is Rote Memorisation Learning? – It is a Repetition Learning Process that involves mechanical repetition of something so that it is remembered, often without or completely disregarding a real understanding of its meaning, significance or creativity of application.

English Language has to be recognized as an important tool for engaging in:

Scientific International Integration, Economic Development, Commercial & Technological Co-operation Cultural Exchange

With the rest of the Western World and hence for facilitating the modernization process of China as an Economic Global Super-Nation.

75% of Chinese Population believes that better English skills amount to unquestionable success. Lacking English skills have also stymied Chinese researchers' ability to collaborate with colleagues worldwide. Only 12% of published scientific studies in China cite international collaboration, compared to over 60% in higher English proficiency countries like Sweden, Poland, Germany and Denmark.

Most Chinese regard proficiency in English as a national as well as a personal asset (Cortazzi & Jin, 1996; Adamson, 2001; Hu, 2002a; Jin & Cortazzi, 2003). On the national level, English language education has been viewed by the Chinese leadership as having a vital role to play in national modernization and development.

Currently, China is an exam-based society, only those who make the highest scores are the ones who "succeed" in life. This results in rampant exam cheating (test cheating is a national sport in China).

Obsession in Chinese Education System with the preparation for Tests such as CET Band 4 and CET Band 6, neglect to cultivate the students Skills of pronunciation, comprehension and communication. Western Universities have a concern and complained that most Chinese students, who attend to study at their campuses, have passed CET Band 4 and even 6, but they couldn't speak, write, or understand well in English.

Chinese children are found to lack creativity & Imagination as a result of the national obsession with Rote Memorisation learning.

It Kills IMAGINATION & CREATIVITY in Children & Students.

Rote Learning Creates next HUGE PROBLEM for Chinese Education System.

Despite the fact that Chinese students start at early age learning the English Language, there is widespread criticism of the teaching and learning techniques. Schools in China are evaluated and financed based on test results. This causes teaching to be geared towards the test skills. Students focus on rote-memorization (written and oral spelling repetition) as the main learning strategy. These methods, which fit very well with the Chinese way of learning, have been criticized as fundamentally flawed by Western Educationalists and Linguists. Furthermore, newly learned words are seldom put into use in speech or conversation.

Global English Proficiency Index (EPI) earlier this year, ranked China near the bottom of all tested Asian countries and in the bottom third of th

all countries ranked globally. As low English Proficiency country, China landed as 11 lowest of the 12 Asian countries and regions ranked. The report believes that Chinas' rote education system is not well suited to learning foreign languages, and that Chinese government need to address the issue if they want to see English Proficiency rise.

Welcome to the Magic Koala English Language Institute

Magic Koala English Language Institute (M~KELI) is a division of Red Dragon Group of Companies.

Utilizing Magic Koala & the Aussie Team Animated Characters as a base, Educational Programs will be developed in Audio & Video format toteach children how to Effectively Communicate in English. Programs will consist of English language audiovisual presentations delivered in aform of Phrases & Sentences in Specific topics. Topics will be a weeklong activity.

Activities will include Songs, Amusing Story Telling, Games, Puzzles, Labyrinths, Sport & Art education,& many Imagination & Creativity Developing Games, all delivered in a fun way and in a presence of High quality English Education.

M~KELI will consist of:

a) Fully Paid English Language School for Children 2-16b) Charitable English Language School for Children 2-16 (for every paid student we will support one student for free)c) Early Childhood English Language Education Teaching Program for Chinese Kindergartens for Children 2-6d) English Language Program Development Team

CHALENGEEducation of English Language predominantly the spoken one, has to be recognized as the most important tool for China to engage in Economic Development, Commercial & Technological Co-operation, Scientific International Integration and Cultural Exchange with the rest of

Western English Language Education Specialists concluded that, In general, the Chinese teachers have a weak grounding in pedagogy, lacked professional competence for the English Language Education and know very little about recent developments in foreign language

international education. The teachers themselves agree that there was an urgent need for them to upgrade their professional competence.

On the individual level, proficiency in English can lead to a host of economic, social and educational opportunities; that is, it can provide access to both material resources and 'symbolic capital' (Bourdieu, 1991) for the betterment of personal well-being. For example, it is a passport to higher education at home or abroad, lucrative employment in a public or private sector, professional

advancement and social prestige (Hu, 2002b, 2003; Jiang, 2003).

SOLUTION 1. Forget about Tests.2. Include Creativity of Application in Rote Memorization Learning.3. Start Teaching Chinese children 2 years old and up how, to speak English, even before they learn how to read it.4. Don't worry about spelling, 80% of native English don't know how to spell however, they can talk in English. Chinese students know how to spell but they don't know what they are spelling, what does it mean and they can't talk.

OPPORTUNITY

Great Commercial Opportunity exists for Magic Koala English Language Institute to modernize and transform Chinese English Language Education System. Utilizing Native English Early Childhood Educators of Foreign Languages, to facilitate, adopt and develop advanced English Teaching Programs, Technics and Methods to implementand train Chinese Teachers how to teach young children to speak English. Commercial implementation of the above findings in existing government and private kindergartens and development of new Bilingual Kindergarten under the umbrella of Magic Koala English Language Institute.

CONCLUSIONS

Presentation to the Chinese Ministry of Education to facilitate their support.

Securing Funding for the Development.

Finding High Caliber of International Educators to facilitate implementation of existing and development of new programs to modernize Chinese English Language Education System.

the Western World therefore, facilitating the modernization process of China as an Economic Global Super-Nation. The upmarket technics will place less stress on “reading” “spelling” and “writing”, in favour of “listening” “conversation” “pronunciation” and “meaningful comprehension”.

Not All about Rote Memorisation Learning is Evil, Memorisation can be Good however, it has to becombined with the Understanding of Meaning, and Creativity of Application.