Forum aims to enhance teaching of English

More than 2,600 English-language schoolteachers and leading experts in English instruction from home and abroad have gathered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, for a conference intended to enhance China's English education with a global vision.

Around 300 domestic and foreign experts and front-line teachers will address the three-day conference, 2019 Global English Education China Assembly, starting on Friday. The event employs the theme of "English Education in China: A New Era, A Shared Vision", and participants will share their experience in academic research and practical teaching through speeches, panels, workshops and teaching demonstrations.

Twelve subthemes include core literacy education, teacher development in the age of computer-assisted instruction, artificial intelligence and foreign language education and demonstrating the achievements of China's English education reform since the country's reform and opening-up started in 1978. The conference also will pass on the latest educational concepts and teaching approaches in English education internationally and ways to contribute China's wisdom to global English pedagogy.