English as the world’s lingua franca,beyond all doubt,is the first choice of all the language learners world wide.The whole English learning movement has produced a profound influence on Chinese culture.This paper is an attempt to outline the role English plays in China and its further development,and based on this,suggests the oncoming paradigm shift of English learning in China.
With the development of English as an international language,English speakers are widely spread in the world.The English learning fashion has been greatly changed since the culture background of English as a langauge has shifted to a mixed cultures instead of just British and American. But the standard varieties of British and American English have been accepted as the only generally accepted forms of standard English in China.The language learning fashion in China is about to undertake a big paradigm shift.This paper is an analysis of the English learning pattern shift in Chinese setting and therefore suggests a practical activities to apply this concept in English learning classes.
In recent years,web-based language learning becomes a positive force both in education and in society as well as an essential facet of the teaching-learning process.The application of skype offers learners a opportunity to communicate with native spearkers who are geographically unaccessable during their independent learning.The main aim of this essay is trying to explain the langauge learning- friendly features of Skype and how to applicate them into aqusition of English in chinese setting.
