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Teach English in AnshA Zhen - Changsha Shi

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The first step to solve any problem is to identify the issue The English language has become so essential in china because the country wants to successfully promote internationalism and keep the lines of communication open for trade and business matters. As one of the global powers, it’s in the country’s best interest to keep afloat of shifting trends in international matters. The government has recognized that English is now the preferred language used for international purposes, and is becoming an increasingly necessary skill for its people to have. So, as an ESL teacher, I must know the problems and difficulties the Chinese students are facing during the classes to be able to overcome these problems. Let’s look at some common problems for Chinese learners: - Non-roman alphabet : Chinese learners, specially the beginners, will encounter some difficulties, because they use a non-roman character system for its written language, in non-roman character system symbols represent the words themselves, because of that, they may have great difficulty reading English texts and spelling words correctly, so they need to learn an entirely new alphabet. - Pronunciation : Most aspects of the English phonological system cause difficulties for Chinese students, some English phonemes don’t exist in Chinese, but the most common issue is the /I/ and /r/ issue, because in Chinese languages there are no sounds which directly correspond to the English sounds /I/ and /r/. - Singular / Plural : There are no plurals in Chinese, a number word is placed in front of the noun, which stays in its singular form, not - like in English – by changing the end of the word and some other plurals exceptions, for example, if someone said “one dog” in Chinese, Dog is singular, but if someone said “many dog”, Dog is plural, that’s why the students tend to forget to make nouns plural. - Gender : There aren’t separate gender pronouns in Chinese language, so, most of the times, the students forget to use appropriate gender pronouns “e.g., he, she, his and her”. - Articles : There are two articles, Definite “The” and indefinite “a, an” In Chinese linguistic system, articles doesn’t exist, and this will make the students to commit errors. - Lack of opportunities to practice : A lot of Chinese students want to improve their English communication skills like speaking and listening, but they are struggling, because they don’t have much options to effectively practice English on a daily basis, unlike students who lives in a native English speaking countries like United States, UK, etc. It is very important to have someone to help them to practice their English, but this applies in some major cities like Beijing and shanghai, but other cities are less internationalized, making it so hard to find a proper atmosphere for practicing oral English. - Word order: The word order of English is quite different from that of Chinese. Chinese rarely use attributive clauses to speak in this way. Everyone is accustomed to putting all attributive clauses in front of each other and finally appearing the words to be modified. However, in English, there are often modifiers in front of each other and then followed by attributive clauses. - Individual differences: We’re all different from each other, this is a fact; the left brain dominates the nerves and organs of the right hemisphere, and is the center of understanding language. It mainly completes the thinking, understanding and behavior of language, analysis, logic and algebra. That is to say, the left brain is organized in a coherent way of thinking, that is, logical thinking. In contrast, the right brain, which innervates the nerves and organs of the left hemisphere, is a dumb brain without a language center. But the right brain has the center to accept music, which is responsible for visual, comprehensive, geometric and painting thinking behavior. Ornamental painting, music, intuitive observation of things, and an overview of the whole situation are all functions of the right brain. Some people are well-developed in the left brain, and others are well-developed in the right brain and different in degree of development. Some people are naturally sensitive to language and others have no sense of language. These are not the only problems, but just a few examples of common difficulties the students are encountering in the classroom.


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