Abstract:

This paper makes a discussion on the present situation of school English teaching in China. This paper consists of five parts. The first part is an introduction, which states the thesis of the paper. The second part makes an illustration of the present English teaching in China, which is not satisfactory. The third part makes an analysis of the problems in English teaching in the aspects of the teaching contents, the teaching methods and the language tests. The fourth part discusses the solutions for the problems, which includes two aspects，the advice for teachers and the advice for students. The fifth part makes a conclusion for the whole paper in the term of the solutions.

Keywords: English teaching in china; problems; advice

摘要:

本论文是对中国学校英语教学现状进行了讨论。论文主要由五个部分组成:第一部分是简介，他陈述了整篇论文的论点。第二部分是对中国不令人满意的英语教学现状进行了说明。第三部分是对英语教学中出现的问题进行的分析，它从教学内容，教学方式和考试三方面展开分析。第四部分是针对问题所讨论的解决方法，它主要从两个方面展开，一是对老师的建议，二是对学生的建议。第五部分则是结论,它主要是从解决方法的层面对整篇论文进行了概括。

关键词：中国英语教学；问题；建议   

1.Introduction
In the age of globalization, English is becoming more and more important. It has become a global communication tool. However, most students in china, no matter whether they graduated from high schools or universities, are not satisfied with their English ability because they are not able to use English well after so many year’s English learning in the schools and colleges. Most students learn English just in order to pass the exams. In order to improve the situation, this paper will make an analysis of the present situation of English teaching in China to see the problems and after that, some solutions for the problems will be suggested.
2. The Present Situation of English Teaching in China
Since 2000, with China’s continuous success of bidding for Olympics and World Expo and China’s access to WTO in 2001, China has entered into an era of globalization. Globalization means the communication and exchange between nations.  In the process of communication and exchange, language plays a key role and in all languages, English plays the most important role in the global communication. “One-fifth of people have the ability to do English communication at different levels all over the world. Two-thirds of scientists can read English in the world. 80 percent of e-mail information is saved with English in the world, and 78 percent of websites are English websites in the world.” Apparently, English is not only a language, but also a symbol, which indicates China’s national power and the ability to compete in the world. Also, with the development of economic globalization，many foreigners come to China to set up companies, invest, and travel, so the demand of English becomes more and more important.