Reflections Of The Yanbian Area Primary School English Tutoring

The latest reform of primary education started in 2001, which has made English a compulsory course. While the central and local authorities and schools put great emphasis on English, a market of after-school class is emerging and prospering, in which the tutor and the private training organization of various names are the most popular. As a foreign language, English is different from other subjects. Primary school children start learning English when they are in Grade One. They think it' s difficult for them to learn English well, especially for those Korean students whose mother tongue is Korean, second language is Chinese and third language is English. They think learning English well is more challenging than to Chinese students .Besides, there are not enough English teachers; the teachers don' t possess adequate expertise; there are too many students in one class. All these factors make the English teaching in primary school not satisfy the requirements of some students. Schools in Yanbian are banned to manage the children' s palace to provide primary school students with school classes. Thus the primary school students can' t find help in school to solve their problems in learning English and they have to seek outside help.After-school class has changed a lot, with its implication, the performer and the way of doing it all greatly different from the traditional ones. After-school class tends to be varied. Private training organizations are emerging vigorously, which has already becomes a noticeable phenomenon in the market of education.The writer uses the pedagogy, the educational psychology, the psycholinguistics, consults educational documents, conducts investigation among school students, does some comparisons and predicts the future of after-school class. The thesis starts from tracing the development of the concept of after-school class. Then it follows that why employing an English tutor or going to an English training organization have become so popular. After that it points out some problems existing...