As English-language teaching penetrates China's smaller cities and rural areas, the role of technologies such as artificial intelligence and support from people in all walks of life are proving important and helpful, according to experts and educators at the 2019 Global English Education China Assembly in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.
Deborah J. Short wrapped up the 2019 Global English Education China Assembly held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, by quoting Irish poet W.B. Yeats, saying "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
Technology-assisted education has enabled English learners in China across all age groups to access unprecedentedly rich resources, especially opportunities to talk with language teachers who are native speakers "face to face" across screens, according to experts.
The assembly has been terrific. The ability for Chinese teachers to share their knowledge and expertise with each other and for other experts from outside of China to come and learn from the Chinese context and to share their expertise as well is very important. The interaction, enthusiasm and excitement of all the teachers, and the thirst for knowledge and connection, are really important, and that's what I've really valued the most from this assembly.
China has expanded its role from a mere consumer market for English language education to an innovator and influencer on the global stage in the field, according to experts and educators from around the world at the 2019 Global English Education China Assembly, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.
Learning English as a second language exposes people to different cultures, provides more job opportunities and more importantly - in the context of globalization - boosts communication skills across international communities, said Rod Ellis, a New Zealand research professor at Curtin University's School of Education in Perth, Australia.
Wang Chuming, a research professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, suggested educators put more effort into improving Chinese students' English language skills.
Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, is accelerating its pace of building itself into an international hub for educational exchanges in order to help improve its position in the education sector both at home and abroad.
"Task-based language teaching requires teachers to ponder the role English education plays in all-around development of humans.
Chinese and US trade negotiators are scheduled to resume talks in Shanghai, birthplace of the first joint communiqué between the two countries, next week, the first time they will meet since the top leaders of the two countries agreed to a temporary truce during the G20 Summit in Japan in late June.
The United States again sent a warship through the Taiwan Straits on Wednesday. The motivation and implication seemingly explicit, since the move coincided with the release of China's white paper on its national defense policy.
MARK ESPER WAS SWORN in as the new US secretary of defense on Tuesday. In an article in Beijing News on Thursday, Diao Daming, a researcher in international politics at Renmin University of China, comments:
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