An Empirical Analysis of Learning and Teaching English as a Second Language： The Chinese Perspective  

作　　者：Naqvi Naj am Abbas Rida Batool 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad, PakistanNorthwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China [2]Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China

出　　处：《Sino-US English Teaching》2014年第8期567-575,共9页中美英语教学（英文版）

摘　　要：This research venture investigates the trends and motives behind the English learning as a second language. The author has used the Chinese binoculars to probe into the phenomenon of English learning and teaching. English language has become an international tool of communication and business. Professional and students at China's Mainland have been learning English since long but this trend has been increased in the recent years due to the wave of globalization and also owing to the enormous emerging economy of China. Internationalization of education and the quest of knowing the culture and civilizations have spurred the need for English learning. The authors have performed a questionnaire based research with the sample of 130 university students learning Chinese at different English learning institutes at Xi＇an, Shanxi, China. The analysis of the findings in this research highlights the reasons behind the growing trends of English learning and also describes the teaching methodology for effective language teaching in the Chinese perspective.

关 键 词：English as second language （ESL） TEACHING LANGUAGE teaching methodology China 

分 类 号：TH743[机械工程—光学工程] H319[机械工程—仪器科学与技术]