Study On Modern Foreign Language Education In China

As for any country, how to get mutual understanding and backup globally is the most important issue. While interpersonal communication is the basic term in the successful cooperation.So almost every country stress foreign language education (FLED in short) more than ever. After China's accession to WTO and winning 2008 Olympics, international cooperation of economy and technology will be expanding definitely. It is vital to strengthen diverse FLED and cultivate talent with foreign language (FL in short) skill. Subjects of FL are more valued than any times. So too, FLED study has been deepening in almost every way.China's modern education started with FLED. In 1862, the establishing of School of Combined Learning was the very beginning of China's FLED. From then on, China's education had to get to learn from abroad whatever in education structure, teaching contents and approach. Therefore, dealing with the origin and the course of China's FLED will do good to the research of modern Chinese history as well as the prosperity of FLED nowadays.The forward mainly dicusses some aspects like the motive, the method and the outline of the thesis besides some analyses of former achievements. The text has 4 parts including historical background, historical period, historical characteristics of modern FLED and some prospects in 21st century. Historical period consists of the embryo, the establishment, the rising, and the preservation by stages on modern FLED. Historical characteristics comprise the change of mind, creation of FLED model , choice of FL, teachers' localization as well as bilingual teaching. Finally, there are some prospects about FLED in 21st century concerning teachers' team, international standing of English and bilingual teaching, linkup FLED, test and net teaching and nongovernmental FLED etc.