Xing pointed the differences between CHinglish and China English, she explained “Chinglish can be viewed as an erroneous form of language that is the result of poor translation, and it generally only exists in written form. Chinese English is an interlanguage used by Mandarin-speaking English learners in China. “(Xing 70) 2.Chinglish as an interlanguage Chinglish also influent in English language in vocabularies, sentences and daily languages. Some people support that Chinglish could become an interlanguage because “China English is suitable as English is the international language in the world.” (Yun 118) According to him, Yun gave examples that many Chinese vocabularies are used in English language family. For examples, “such as kung fu, …show more content…
Evan also mentioned that Chinglish is a language without nonsensical form, and “people in the early time, they were not familiar with English, and Chinglish should be accused and excluded” (Evan 68) Chinglish usually pointed people who are not good at English, or translate Chinese into English directly through Chinese linguistic principle. According to Evan, Chinglish is a “English that is the result of poor translation, misspelling, and errors”. In China, some English learners also resist Chinglish, because Chinglish is an outdated language. “Chinese English has tended to be held in contempt by both native speakers and most Chinese” (Wei & Fei 44) In their opinions, Chinglish will cause a lot of trouble in communication, and speaking Chinglish will make the learner feel silly. Fu mentioned “Chinglish is very destructive. It may adversely affect cross cultural communication and the quality of oral expression. If it occurs often，it may lead to communicative failuree. ” 3. …show more content…
First of all, the textbooks are more closed to daily life. Second, many English speakers teaching English in China. Usually these teachers teaching in speaking and listening. Third, the internet improved, and Chinese English learners have more opportunities to communicate with people who from other English speaking countries. Last, the overall levels of English Chinese teachers improved. Almost universities in China setted up English department, and some of them opened Teaching English as a foreign language major to students. However, even the learning environment improved, Chinglish is still exist in Chinese students. “Chinglish often exists in the oral work of college students and becomes one of the major problems that adversely affect cross cultural communication and the quality of oral expression” (Xiao 15). The reasons of it are following. 1. The foundation of the students is not very well. 2. English is not a major class in colleges or universities study, students can choose other languages as their foreign languages.
Prior to immigrating to America, Nicole attended a public school in China where all of her teachers were Chinese natives. At Nicole’s school in China, however, English is a required course of study taught mostly by emphasizing English vocabulary, completing short one-page writing assignments, and practicing spelling. Learning English pronunciations and engaging in realistic English conversation wasn’t the goal for educators in China. The goal in China was to prepare students to pass their post-high school exam, which was their ticket into attending a university. The exam is highly demanding for Chinese students because it requires knowledge of English reading, comprehension, spelling and writing. For Nicole, the most stressful part of this exam was that students taking it
English as a communication tool holds prominent position in Chinese curriculum (Liu, 2012). Learning English as a Second Language (ESL) has seen its boost in China (Qiang & Wolff, 2007). Mastering English is an asset for students in job hunting and further education. As academic achievement is highly valued in Chinese culture, students are expected to achieve high marks in English tests (Liu, 2012). University students need to pass National English proficiency examinations, which are the part of the evaluation for obtaining degrees (Wolff, 2010). Students attend after-school English courses for enhancing their English because of the pressure (Liu, 2012). The majority of ELL students aim at improving the international English proficiency tests results, such as International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). ELL students are more motivated in the after-school English courses because of the high-target learning environment. However, the teacher-centred learning procedure neglects the long-term enhancement of students’ English level. The ignorance of the long-term development is due to less student involvement during the teaching procedure (Mo, 2012). Some Chinese ELL students choose to attend ESL courses abroad. The reasons are that they can have a better language environment (Wolff, 2010) and can engage more in the learning procedure (Smith & Hu, 2013). The aim of the study is to compare the teacher-centred teaching in China and student-centred teaching in Canada and to examine efficient teaching methods for Chinese speaking ELL
By juxtaposing both the English and Mandarin language, Wong is effectively showcasing and questioning the institutional dominance the English language may possesses over both worldwide linguistics as well as individual’s freedom of expression; Stating we may need to break free from the constraining borders English may pose on an individual, and instead write or speak in any way we wish in hopes of effectively getting our point across. The narrator wants herself and others to break free from the strict dominant borders, empowering others to live a life filled with full freedom of expression regardless of one’s style of writing or minority
China has a long history of language reformation, where the Chinese language becomes one of the most successful and radical amendments for the whole nation to adopt several changes along the way. In this essay, a discussion of major components in the language reform, specifically the Mandarin language, in China will be explored with the social, culture, and political issues that have influence the changes. A history and pattern of language used in China- starting from the days of language in the imperial court, to the communist revolution during Mao’s regime, until the language and speech pattern in the twenty first century era- will be explored throughout the essay. This essay will also feature the analysis of the dwindling standard style language by the Han dynasty into the widespread official speech from north China, which became the basis for the Standard Chinese in the modern days. Speech pattern and the underlying social reformation of the Red Guards, due to the shift of political power in the bourgeoisie and proletarians society of China’s population will be explored as well. The success of the implementation of a single national language by the government of China throughout the country will be mentioned. Finally, how and why the language in China has differed greatly from one era to another will be analyzed in the essay, especially the power reason behind the changes in China’s language system.
The United States is made up of multiple cultures, race, and languages. Many people come from Mexico or Asian parts of the world, like China in search for a better life. One of the struggles many people have when coming from a different country is the language, in this case English. Everyone has a unique way of communicating. In the United States, after people learn English they realize they use different Englishes without knowing, in order to communicate, whether it be with parents, professors, or your own pets.
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Johnson and Newport used 46 native Chinese or Korean second language learners of English who were students and faculty members at an American university. The subjects were presented together because of their native languages dissimilarity to English and lack of difference in the results of two groups. The subjects' ages differentiate between 3 and 39, when they first arrived in the US and they had lived in the target language culture for between the age of 3 and 26. According to their age of arrival in the US, t...
The United States and China are two very large countries that have cultures that are well known throughout the world. There are many differences between the United States and China, but there are many contributing factors that shape the cultures of these two countries. Language is universal, but there are different meanings and sounds, which vary from one culture to another. In China, citizens speak many languages, but about 94% speak the Chinese language. The difference in dialects was overcome by the written word and eventually a version of Mandrin became the “official speech” (The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, 1996, p.304).
As Professor Sun discussed in lecture, Chinese writing system is useful for contemporary people to read and understand the ancient works as this writing system remain unchanged over the past two thousand years. A person who learned basic Chinese language is able to read the traditional writings. Obviously, Chinese characters are understood across time. However, English writings cannot be used to communicate over time as their words are always changing. Since pronunciation changes a whole lot over time, the spelling of recent English script has no relationship with how the word is actually spoken in the past. Without specialty training, a contemporary English native speaker cannot read Old and Middle English, like Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) works in four hundred years ago. This offers s...
This growing community is also prone to many challenges. One of the biggest challenges they have is language barrier. As compared to other communities, Most of the Chinese people cannot speak Chinese. in order to know the reason I asked this question to many Chinese people. Chung, 28 years old, a grocery store worker said “In china we don’t have English language education except some big institutes. We prefer our own language in our country and people also don’t like to learn English. Because of this, when we come here, we face many problem regarding communication.”
Experiencing those days where people would laugh at other for the broken English; the grammar and pronunciation are the toughest parts of the language. People with English as a second language always stumble upon difficulties; however, the determination of learning a new language do not decrease easily as the motivation is still surrounding one’s mind. Today, English has become an international communication; even the teaching and learning of the language has already spread throughout the world. English is known as one of the most common use language and has been offering classes everywhere for years especially around Asia; additionally, the world common language has now become the number one language uses in every fields of career that is being offer everywhere. Non-American students should be required to take English class as a second language in school
In conclusion, it was stated that due to the vital global challenges the country encounters, Chinese-English bilingual education represents a significant issue in Chinese education. Assuming all the arguments discussed in this essay it might be suggested that this form of BE appears to provide economic, occupational and cultural benefits for the Chinese society due to the increase of English language proficiency among the population. However, it was also noted that today Chinese-English BE faces three main challenges in its promotion, but all of them already have available solutions. Therefore, the broad implementation of bilingual education in China might cost time for the government but appears to have considerable advantages which could benefit the country in the foreseen future.
English spreads widely in each countries, no matter the area of region or information transfer, English becomes an important position in global language. As the specification of a global language, it essentially refers to a language that learned and spoken internationally, so English can be the most out-standing. According to the number of English-speaking calculations, English is the official language used by most countries, English is the most widely used second language in the world, and the percentage of web pages with English content is estimated to be over 50% (Crystal, 2003). Meanwhile, the history and usefulness cause English to be a global language, and they mainly influence to spread English faster in China and to bring convenience
The spread of English where it used as a foreign and/or a second language may be compromised if it is replaced by another language such as Chinese or Spanish. For example, if China continues to gradually dominate the world economically, politically and technologically, its language could replace English as the major foreign language taught and learnt in various countries’ education systems because they b...
English, as a communication tool, is playing an extremely significant role in cross-cultural communication nowadays. Chinese government had a clear understanding of it back to the 190th century, when men from newly-created diplomatic corps were trained English skills in the first English language school. In the past twenty years the tendency to study English as a second language (ESL)has been increasing rapidly. ESL program became countrywide in the last decade of the 20th century and gave birth to controversial evaluation and different views towards its future prospects. ESL became a 10-billion Yuan business in China, with the total amount of the 25% market –share books sold. Some teachers in Shanghai have an hourly rate per 1000 Yuan/hour. China annually recruits 100000 Foreign Experts .In 2001 Beijing alone gave the profit of 700 million Yuan in this industry.