A lack of qualified English teachers in China

Secondly, we don’t have enough high quality english teachers. Take my experience as an example, I studied in a town in Jiangxi province, which is located in the middle-east of China. Unlike in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, the english teachers here are not good enough to teach oral english well because they did’t have many opportunities to polish their english. There are some problems in their pronunciation and accent, so the students inevitably learn their defects. Ten years ago, students seldom had access to english apart from their english classes because the PC and Internet are not popular at that time in China. However, this situation is being improved with the development of the economy and technology in China. After coming to Shanghai, the biggest city of China, I found college students who have been studying in this city and who do well in speaking English. It’s a reflection of the unbalanced distribution of educational resources. The best teachers prefer work in big cities for a high salary and convenient lives.

It is these english examinations which are not well designed and result in a lack of qualified english teachers that make Chinese students perform poorly in speaking English.