| Chinese people, especially students encounter great | | | | and vice versus. Many Chinese new words derived |
| difficulties when they learn English. Today, English is | | | | from English are emerging, there are already many. |
| being taught at nearly all schools and universities, and | | | | The derivations are so common that many Chinese |
| students learn English at younger and younger ages. | | | | people think it is English words that derive from |
| Many students or non-students learn English outside | | | | Chinese. Chinese people get used to translate every |
| school. But after many years learning they still are | | | | English word into Chinese before they can understand |
| not fluent in English, ever who has got a doctor | | | | the meaning of the word or a passage. As a |
| degree. Why? | | | | language must be used to represent the real world |
| It is because they want to learn English. This seems a | | | | to make a sense, the Chinese people use English to |
| joke, how can a person master English if he doesn't | | | | represent Chinese, not the real world. Without |
| want to? So the reason should be they ONLY want | | | | connection to reality and knowledge, the Chinese |
| to learn English. They don't want to use it, many | | | | people find that English is useless. Unsurprisingly, many |
| people will say he or she wants to use it, but | | | | Chinese people potentially want to give up the |
| actually, they haven't used it. For most students, the | | | | tedious and useless thing. |
| only usage of English is to prepare for examination, | | | | This situation still exists inside the entire China, |
| but is examination a use? As long as the examination | | | | especially the mainland of China. To overcome this |
| is passed and the students get high scores, they will | | | | problem needs millions of people to do |
| stop learning English as soon as possible. Some | | | | something--Stop the way that teach the |
| students will say they hate English while they are | | | | correspondence between English and Chinese, |
| studying English very hard for examination! What a | | | | instead, relate English materials directly to knowledge |
| pity! | | | | without translation during teaching. To achieve this, |
| After all, what have the students got beside the high | | | | they can set a curriculum that includes some |
| scores? Actually they have gained something. They | | | | non-English courses, such as mathematics, given in |
| have known how to translate English into Chinese | | | | English. |