Forum helps educators boost cultural learning

Exchanges between English language educators from home and abroad usher in new opportunities for more intensive communication and mutual learning between civilizations, experts said at an international conference in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Friday.

The new era demands that language teachers improve English education, promote education opening-up to the world and promote mutual exchanges between civilizations, experts said at 2019 Global English Education China Assembly, which uses the theme "English Education in China: A New Era, A Shared Vision". The event has drawn nearly 3,000 English schoolteachers and leading experts in English instruction from home and abroad and is intended to strengthen dialogue between China and the world in English education.

The three-day assembly was jointly hosted by China Daily, the Hangzhou municipal government, Shanghai International Studies University, the National Association of Foreign Language Education of the Chinese Society of Education, and the United States-based TESOL International Association. TESOL stands for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.