The Challenges in Elementary English Education of Northeast China and Solutions

Abstract

: This study aims to explore the challenges present in the elementary English education of Northeast China, in addition to proposing some corresponding solutions. After referring to previous researches and detailed analyses, this study discovers that these challenges mainly cover insufficient teaching staff, undesirable educational quality and shortage of educational resources. To crack these problems, some measures should be adopted, including attracting the local graduates majoring in English and English Education to return and work as teachers, implementing in-service training and further education, setting up libraries and purchasing English books, as well as introducing modern English teaching facilities. Such a solution is conducive to fundamentally raising the English teaching quality of primary and secondary schools there, thereby contributing the development of northeastern rural education in the long run.