文档介绍：Professor Gu Yueguo Pro-Vice Chancellor of Beijing Foreign Studies University Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
ELL in China: Past, Present and Future
GU Yueguo
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Beijing Foreign Studies University
温故而知新
One knows more by reviewing the past !
---- Confucius
Main Headings
ELL in China: the Past (up to 1949)
ELL in China: the Present (1949-2009)
ELL in China: the Future
ELL: Some logistics
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ELL in China:
From Late Qin Dynasty to 1949
Provisions of Education
Three systems were operating in parallel:
Traditional schools and colleges ( 书院, shuyuan)
New schools (学堂, xuetang), and universities
Missionary schools and universities
Traditional Schools and Colleges
Classical curriculum;
Learning of Confucianism;
Civil servant examination;
Anti-Western learning;
Orthodox and wide popularity until the civil servant exam was abolished in the last few years of Qin Dynasty.
New Schools and Universities
New schools, ing from the reformed old-style traditional schools;
New universities (. 京师大学堂, now Peking U,国立北洋大学, . now Tianjing U.)
Supported by reform-minded officials;
English was the primary FL being taught;
In the early years, foreign language schools were set up to train interpreters and translators;
In the later schools and universities, FL was pulsory subject.
Missionary Schools and Universities
Missionary schools: up to 1914, reaching about 4000; (charity)
Universities: about 13 or more;
English was pulsory subject to be taught and learned;
The Republic (1911-1949)
New national curriculum: to produce citizens of a republic, not subjects of an emperor;
Traditional curriculum abolished;
Confucianism no longer taught;
Junior, senior middle schools and universities appeared
FL (EL the most important) pulsory;