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SHNU Seminar on English College Entrance Examination Held

Scholars and teachers from various universities, high schools and other education institutions assembled in SHNU to explore about the influences and policies of China’s English College Entrance Examination on December 27th.

The theme centers around such issues as whether there is a direct relationship between the decline of Chinese language and English education, functions of English education on China’s past, present and future development, reforms of English language education and professional analyses of these aspects.


Lu Jianfei, SHNU Party Secretary stressed the importance of receptive skills and productive skills in enhancing students’ language proficiency. Actually, English is an international tool and the carrier of culture, the cancellation of English tests in college entrance exam would not heal the wounds of exam-oriented education. Instead, what counts can be how to promote cross-cultural abilities of students in education. Yan Jinglan, dean of Foreign Languages College of East China University of Science and Technology, meant that English should be a problem-solving language, while math is a language of science, and music is a language of emotions. What teachers should strive to fulfill is not depriving students of the opportunity to learn English but rather improve the education quality. Aleksander Sobieraj, Academic Operations Manager of EF (English First, a global English Education Institution), concerned that diversity of languages and cultures would not conflict with individual cultural development and that everyone shall foster a pre-solid view of English education which involves both teaching by different functions and by situations.

This seminar involves over 20 scholars and professors across Shanghai to pool around for government’s decision-making and innovative ways of Chinese English education.