孩子为什么要学习英语？
当学英语的热潮在神州大地蔚然成风时，人们蓦然回首，对国人热衷学习英语的现象进行一番反思并由此而引发出一场热烈的讨论。有一君在网上撰文大悔自己四年的光阴在背诵英语单词中度过并因此而荒废了自己所学的专业；更有人怀着民族主义的激情，从语言文化的高度对学习英语进行了反思，认为英语文化的风靡大大侵蚀和削弱了汉语文化的地位（相关评论见人民网）。 此番言论似乎是在告诫国人：我们是否有必要将学习英语摆在如此重要的位置？为什么要学习英语？笔者也常常扪心自问。是为了赶时髦还是为了装饰门面？都不是！理性地分析，学习英语的必要性源自现实的需要。在经济全球化的潮流中，世界各民族之间的交流日益频繁，不同文化之间的交...全部
当学英语的热潮在神州大地蔚然成风时，人们蓦然回首，对国人热衷学习英语的现象进行一番反思并由此而引发出一场热烈的讨论。有一君在网上撰文大悔自己四年的光阴在背诵英语单词中度过并因此而荒废了自己所学的专业；更有人怀着民族主义的激情，从语言文化的高度对学习英语进行了反思，认为英语文化的风靡大大侵蚀和削弱了汉语文化的地位（相关评论见人民网）。
此番言论似乎是在告诫国人：我们是否有必要将学习英语摆在如此重要的位置？为什么要学习英语？笔者也常常扪心自问。是为了赶时髦还是为了装饰门面？都不是！理性地分析，学习英语的必要性源自现实的需要。在经济全球化的潮流中，世界各民族之间的交流日益频繁，不同文化之间的交融不断深化，在这一背景下，作为某种文化的符号的语言就显得尤其重要，只有了解一个国家的语言，才有可能了解一个国家的文化，才能为相互之间的交流提供对话的平台。
当然，也许有人会问，我们需要学习的为什么是英语，而不是俄语、法语或是其它？这是因为，历史发展到这一阶段，英语国家在主导着世界经济，这是一个客观事实，因此，我们需要尊重现实、顺应时代潮流。诚然，这种状况可能会随着历史的进程而发生流变。
从功能上讲，语言的更大意义上是作为一种工具而存在，我们也无需过分夸大语言的价值。关键是，在现阶段，掌握了一门语言（英语）就意味着你获得了一把金钥匙或者说一块敲门砖。对于一个学者来说，他可以直接阅读外文资料，从中获取养分；对于一个商人来说，他可以在第一时间了解外界信息，从中捕捉商机；对于一个求职者来说，掌握了一门外语无疑增加了胜算的筹码；对于一个小商贩来说，能用外语同外宾进行交流能为他带来额外的利润，等等。
从经济学角度分析，掌握了英语这门语言就等于拥有了一笔可观的资源，这一资源能为你带来机遇、增加财富，因为这一资源有着巨大的市场需求。反观国人学习英语的现状，笔者认为需要反思的问题不是应不应当学习英语，而是如何学好英语！众所周知，国人在学习英语过程中重读写、轻听说的弊端由来已久并培养了大量的“哑巴英语”者。
试问，在众多的大学毕业生、四六级英语通过者中，有几个能用英语进行面对面地交流？许多人苦读英语十几年，背诵英语单词过万条，到头来却连最简单的日常对话都困难！这才是国人学英语的悲哀！语言的功能在于实现交流，如果学习语言偏离了这一基本目标，那么就葬送了语言的价值。
与东南亚许多国家相比较，国人英语水平普遍不高，这一结论来自笔者的亲身感受，在出差马来西亚和泰国等地时，令笔者感到颇为惊讶的是，在街头一个普通店铺的营业员或是一个司机都能用英语同你交流，尽管口音不是很纯正。
而在中国，能说英语的仅仅是少数，要使英语普及到社会各个阶层，还需要很长一段时间。至于那种学习英语会对汉语造成冲击的担心更是杞人忧天，回想林语堂、辜鸿铭、钱钟书等前辈，他们在海外留学数载，通数国语言，可谓学贯中西，但他们似乎并没有因此而忘掉国语，相反，每位都是赫赫有名的国学大师。
事实上，一个人如果学不好英语，他的国语也不会好到那里去。 补充： When the craze to learn English has become so rampant in the Chinese territory, it was suddenly back, for people keen to learn English a reflection of the phenomenon and the resulting rise to a lively discussion。
Eagle has a big regret in the author line of their own time in four years to memorize English words and thus spent abandoned by their own professional learning; more people with the passion of nationalism, language and culture from the height of a reflection of learning English that the English popular culture has been greatly eroded and undermined the status of Chinese culture (see PRC comments)。
These remarks seem to be warning people: Do we need to learn English before such an important position? Why learn English? I also often ask ourselves。
In order to fashion or cosmetic? Not! Rational analysis, the necessity of learning English from the real needs。
The trend of economic globalization, the world of all nationalities between the increasingly frequent exchanges between different cultures deepening, in this context, as a cultural symbol of the language is particularly important, and only know a country language, will it be possible to understand a country's culture, can exchange between a platform for dialogue。
Of course, some people may ask why we need to learn English, not Russian, French or other? This is because this stage of historical development, in the English-speaking countries dominate the world economy, it is an objective fact, so we need to respect the reality and adapt to the trend of the times。
It is true that this situation might be with the history of the process flow occurred。 Functional sense, the greater the sense of language as a tool exists, we have no need to over-exaggerate the value of language。
The key is, at this stage, have a language (English) means that you won a gold key or a stepping stone。
For a scholar, he can read the foreign language information, to obtain nutrients; For a businessman, he can understand the outside world for the first time information, from capturing business opportunities; for a job, the master of a foreign language is no doubt increased the chances of winning chips; for a small traders, the guests can exchange views with the foreign language for him to generate additional profits, and so on。
From an economic point of view, mastered the English language that is equivalent to have a substantial amount of resources, the resources to bring you the opportunity to increase their wealth, because this resource has great market demand。
On the contrary, the status of Chinese learning English, I need to reflect on that question is not should not be learning English, but how to learn English! As we all know, people learning English in the process of re-reading and writing, the drawbacks of light I heard a long time and to develop a lot of "dumb English" person。
How, in a large number of university graduates, 46 were in English, through, several can be conducted in English face-to-face communication? Many more than ten years studying English, recited over 10,000 English words, in the end even the simplest day-to-day dialogue is difficult! This is the tragedy of the people to learn English! The realization of the function of language is communication, if learning a language that deviated from the basic objectives, then put an end to the value of the language。
Many countries in Southeast Asia, compared to the standard of English people in general is not high, this conclusion from the author's personal experience in the business, such as Malaysia and Thailand when the writer was rather surprised that, in the streets of an ordinary shop or business is a driver be able to exchange with you in English, although the accent is not very pure。
In China, only able to speak English is one of the few, to make English universal to all levels of society, but also take a very long time。
As for the kind of Chinese learning English would be more worried about the impact of over-worried about, looking back to Lin, Gu Hongming, Zhongshu such predecessors, they are contained in a number of overseas study, pass a number of languages, is in both Chinese and Western learning, but they did not seem to and forget the language, on the contrary, each Master Guoxue are known。
In fact, if a person is not learning English, Mandarin, he will not be good there。 。收起
