II A Comparison of English Teaching Between Rural and Urban Areas

    Rural education is one of the important factors which are related to the level of education in English There is a big gap between rural education and urban education One of the priorities of the new curriculum reform is to balance the development of urban education and rural English education In the ten years of the reform, English teaching in rural secondary schools has been greatly improved and has achieved certain results, but what cannot be ignored is that there are many factors restricting the English teaching development of middle school in rural areas Through observation we can find that the environment of rural education and urban education are not the same There is a deviation of teachers’ welfare benefits The rural teaching staffs are not more than the urban teaching staffs in the whole The atmosphere of English learning is poorer in the rural than in the urban The rural students use little knowledge of English in real life The practicability of English isn’t broad in the rural According to these reasons, the students in their thought do not play attention to learning English Finally, the students’ learning initiative and enthusiasm are not high Their economic strengths are different So their teaching conditions are different The leaderships of rural middle school are not pay attention the English education So, it leads to a serious loss of the middle school English teachers Some of the English teachers give up teaching and go for business, and a small part of English teachers go to city to teach English The children in the city can get in touch with much more new things than the rural children do The urban children have received education, and they have advanced equipment and excellent teachers They can enjoy the teaching resources The urban children get the information faster and easier than the rural children So, the urban children learn the new things faster Their horizons are wide They think problems are deep and thorough Their knowledge is richer than the rural children Meanwhile, the urban students learn English fast and easily They have a good learning environment But the rural students are not same with them They are not able to study for many chores and farm work Rural education is backward, so they could only study in austere classrooms, where lack advanced teaching equipment At the same time, most English teachers don’t get in touch with new things, and they can’t use the new equipment because they are very old Finally, the equipment is just a decoration Many problems affect the rural education, such as inadequate education funding, lack of teachers, weak teaching quality
    Therefore, it is very necessary to narrow the gap between urban education and rural education to promote the development of rural education It must be healthy development of Chinese education

III The Present Situation of English Education in the Rural Middle Schools of Zhoukou City 

31 Negative Influence of the College Entrance Examination
    Since the Ministry of Education carried out the exam reform and Beijing proposed reform program of the English entrance examination, there’re many topics concerned by many scholars, such as English education goals, positioning, values, teaching modes and so on Especially the English college entrance examination scores will be reduced from 150 points to 100 points in the original scheme, the people has aroused hot debates up and down College entrance examination is the life of the baton Score is the only standard to measure the students who can be admitted to the ideal university So the parents and children will think that English is becoming less important, they will focus on learning math and Chinese, because the two subjects’ scores are big Therefore, they will have a radical idea
32 Incorrect Social Attitude Towards English Teaching
    Many years ago, English was placed a high value by people, but now people don’t pay attention to it under the condition of sudden change It will be much affected by many aspects    The reform of college entrance examination has great negative effects on rural middle school in English Especially, the rural parents, they deny English learning totally For example, after the reform, the majority of students may not spend more time learning English At the same time, students are not interested in learning gradually Finally, it is very difficult for them to learn it, and English teachers have trouble in teaching them English teachers will be very slack in class So, for those students who can’t afford to remedial classes from poor families, and it creates a new unfairness They may have a disadvantage on finding a job in the future in English language English dropping scores of the college entrance examination will make the schools, teachers, students and parents pay less attention to English They regard English social examination as “rejection burden” Meanwhile, many rural English training institutions are facing a great impact, the rural schools will greatly reduce the degree of attention Coupled with the lack of parents’ understanding of the college entrance examination, they also instill a wrong idea that English is not important These problems may make the students lack of learning motivation in English These rural children will slowly lose confidence in learning English 农村中学英语教育现状与对策探析(2):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_35236.html