免费日韩片_欧美成人精品一区二区男人小说_国产乱码一区二区三区四区_国产精品国产三级国产aⅴ入口_成人看的污污超级黄网站免费_欧美一级在线免费观看_成人午夜免费无码福利片_国产乱人伦偷精品视频色欲_aaa少妇高潮大片免费看_国产精品1234_亚洲精品国产suv一区88_中文字字幕在线中文无码_精品亚洲区_午夜九九九_国产av国片精品jk制服丝袜_色综合亚洲_亚洲成av人片无码bt种子下载_欧美色就色_精品少妇的一区二区三区四区_男人用嘴添女人下身免费视频

English-only teaching not allowed for kids
(China Daily)
Updated: 2004-03-16 09:07

According to an announcement released by the Shanghai Education Commission, local kindergartens are forbidden to teach in English only. And children graduating from such kindergartens will not be allowed to enter local primary schools.

Shanghai Education Commission warns local kindergartens that they are forbidden to teach in English only. [newsphoto]

The announcement, which came after some kindergartens released their latest recruitment advertising saying they would provide a "non-Chinese" environment, stipulates that local preschools have to emphasize Chinese language teaching.

Only certain "qualified" kindergartens will be allowed to offer English courses as part of their extracurricular activities.

"The mother tongue is still the basis for teaching in kindergartens," said He Youhua, vice-director of the commission's elementary education department.

Too much English language training at an early age may even have a negative impact on children's future learning of the language, He said.

He said the lack of professional English teachers and standard teaching materials remained the two major problems for English teaching at local preschools.

English language courses have become increasingly popular among local kindergartens since the middle of the 1990s.

Now, around one-fifth of kindergartens throughout the city have opened English courses and these "bilingual schools" are especially welcomed by parents.

Bao Shuijuan, director of the local division of the Beijing-based Child Development Centre of China -- a government-backed organization undertaking education research -- partly supports "bilingual teaching" in kindergartens. But Bao also said language teaching should be based on children's interests.

"Some kids have a really good gift for languages and teaching them a foreign language at an early age may help them further develop their skills in that area," Bao said.

However, Bao opposes open English courses as a main subject in kindergartens.

Zhang Hong, once an English teacher at Shanghai Nanxi Kindergarten in downtown Jing'an District, said the "proper number" of English courses in kindergartens may help children cultivate their interests in languages, helping them in the future.

Shanghai's highly regarded Nanxi Kindergarten has a 15-minute English session each morning, which mainly involves listening to stories, learning everyday phrases and singing songs.

According Zhang, many children start to grasp the language after only a semester.

"I think such English courses are positive," she said.

Close