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Q: should China consider teaching foreign students in English?

many of the students who pursue their majors in Chinese language are somehow incompetence due to the difficulties of Chinese language and so many of them graduate without the basic knowledge of their majors, this leading to the difficulties to find jobs in their respective countries.

can you provide some suggestions on how to tackle this problem?

should China start teaching all foreign students in English language or any language that can result easier to foreigners?

11 years 19 weeks ago in  Teaching & Learning - China

 
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no it's like saying should America teach foreigners from CHina in Chinese!

crimochina:

booger he's really chinese he has never been to america

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Man i can see your point, but you are wrong, why , because the student have the right to choose what major he/she want to study and in witch language he/she wants, i have friends in all over china that they study in not the same language

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Man i can see your point, but you are wrong, why , because the student have the right to choose what major he/she want to study and in witch language he/she wants, i have friends in all over china that they study in not the same language

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As pogger wrote, there are universities in China which offer degree courses in English.

 

I wouldn't mind having my courses in English either,  but I don't think that will be too realistic in my case.

Many of my professors have a basic understanding of English, but I don't know if they can conduct entire courses in English.

 

They have offered me the opportunity to write my exams in English (the questions are in Chinese). One older student mentioned that when correcting our papers the professors probably hand ours off to one of their graduate students to correct.

 

 

I think in universities where there are a lot of foreign students majoring in one specific course, then it might be doable to switch from teaching in Chinese to English. For example, there are more than a few students majoring in medicine at Jiaotong Daxue (Shanghai), they could switch over to English.

 

I frequently chat with a friend of mine and we always say that it takes a lot of self-study to study here. He's always translating the powerpoint slides from his classes and whenever I study I have an English book and my Chinese book. If I don't understand the Chinese, I look it up in the English book.

 

Study in China for me = 80% self study + 15% attending all classes and actually learning (and or understanding) something + 5% trying to make nice with the teachers for that extra 5 or so points just in case my mark is below the passing mark.

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China offers thousands of scholarships to different countries all around the world in various fields of studies here and the Universities which the benefactors of the scholarships come to attend here are decided by the CSC(china scholarship council) so 98% of them attend classes in Chinese and most of them graduate without the relevant knowledge of their majors that's why I asked whether it could solve the problem if they consider giving them classes in English or translating their books and question papers.

I did not make a statement but asked a question

Jíliú.hé:

on a side note the name Obama make you sound like a Brazilian politician.

 

just saying

 

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they do offer that option in some cases but keep in mind if Chinese people could just as easily ask why all American universities do not have all there course also in Chinese. they are limited in resources and are usual state manage or regulated, so taking up resources for outsiders is not on the top of the list for a brick nation.

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