English Learning in China and Foreign Language Acquisition :: Foreign Language Acquisition

1. IntroductionNowadays slope an external verbiage plays a more and more important role in the area. China wants to communicate well with the outside world and CEnglish has bring the most useful instrument. The Ministry of Education has made the policy on English teaching in the primary feather civilize. Their reason is that English should be taught as early as possible. Its true that we need more people who give the bounce speak wide English and communicate with other countries so as to bring economic profit to our country and introduce China to the world Cand to improve the countrys image in the world, but is it the law that teaching English in primary school is well readyCor is everything ok for English discipline?In the present day society, arguing is becoming fiercely. Some parents are sending their children to the English training school to learn English. The parents want their children to be priority to others in the future. But is it inevitable to learn Englis h as early as possible? umteen people determine with this. As for my part, I do not agree with this thought. Some children are too early to learn a foreign phrase in their own age. It is not necessary to have a child to learn English at a very young age. First, with the deepening of reform and Chinas entry into WTO, English teaching has drawn the solicitude of the whole educational world. To cater for the economic development, the Ministry of Education required that English should be taught from the third year onward in all primary schools in urban areas from the fall of 2001 and the following year in untaught areas. (5) Meanwhile, a New English Course Requirement at supreme Education Stage (on trial basis) was published. Second, in the last two eld in primary school, the children have the ability to master and make honest use of his mother tongue. So it is easy to have a good command of English learning in both listening and speaking. The boilers suit aim of the New Engl ish Course Requirement at the raw material education stage is to develop the childrens everyday language ability. The development of the general language ability is based on the overall development of the childrens language skills, language knowledge, emotion and attitude, learning strategies and culture awareness. Among them, language knowledge and language skills are the foundation culture awareness is of help in utilize language appropriately emotion and attitude are the important factors influencing childrens learning and development and learning strategies can help to enhance learning susceptibility and develop learners autonomy.