The most popular language is English today. Almost every student has to learn it. Dating back to 1911-1945, the status of English education was different. The author will focus on that time span, focus on English education of that period. Some even assume it very weak in English education back then. Actually this is wrong. After surveying and reviewing a lot of historical documents, we find English study was very common and popular during that times. It had a lot of famous English experts, translators, English educators and writers. This paper is about the status of English education during 1911-1945, possibly will change your view on this topic.
The author first analyzes the background to make sure readers understand his idea from big picture. Then the author analyzes the traits by comparison between that period and today. At last as a promotion of this paper the author tries to extract several points of lessons from old days for the use of today and future English education.
Keywords Republican period; English education; education analysis.
Contents
AbstractI
ContentsI
Introduction.2
2. Typical English education cases.5
2.1 Nankai middle school English study and teaching.5
2.1.1The school courses setting.5
2.1.2 Requirement on English course.5
2.2 The Case of Peking University English education case.6
2.2.1 Setting up of the teaching system.6
2.2.2Teaching mode.7
3 Analysis of English education analysis.8
3.1 Clear unbalance in English education.8
3.1.1 Unbalance between different area within China.8
3.1.2 Unbalance between different schools.8
3.2 Developing in political riots.9
3.3. Strict requirement for the students.9
3.4 High achievement of English education.10
4. Invaluable experiences for English education today.11
