Whether the Learning Environment Is Effective to Student to Study English

Title: Whether the learning environment is effective to student to study English

Abstract

In recent years, lots of people study English in their own country. Some people think it is not effectively. The aim of this research is whether the learning environment is effective to students. The result of the research shows that English environment could help students to improve their English skills. As a result, increasingly number of people want to send their children to the UK.  

List of contents

Introduction

Method

Results

Discussion

Conclusion

List of reference

List of tables

Figure 1: nationality

Figure 2: years of learning English before coming to the UK

Figure 3: favourite teaching method

Figure 4: time of learning English per week

Figure 5: willing to spend more time in learning English

Figure 6: aspects that students think in the UK are better than in China

Figure 7: willing to send their children study in the UK in the future

Introduction

English is a global language. Lots of people whose mother tongue are not English study English in their own countries. However, they think it is hardly to learn well in their own countries. Nowadays, lots of Chinese parents want to send their children to study in the UK, because they think the learning environment in the UK is better than in China. According to Zhang Lee (2006) “in the education ministry told us that there are about 100,000 Chinese students going abroad every year, but the total number of families who might send their children abroad is estimated at 20 million.” That means the English environment is effective to Chinese students. Therefore，the aim of study is to investigate whether the environment is effective to students.

Method

In this experiment, 20 students were chosen from University of Teesside. They were all five weeks pre-sessional English course. All results came from a survey; meanwhile, all answers were reliable.

The questionnaire included 9 questions: the nationality, time for learning English, the teaching method between the UK and China, why they chosen this method, willing to spend more time in the English environment, whether the English skills in the UK were better than in China, in addition, willing to sent their children to the UK in the future and the reason.

There are 19 students from China and 1 student is from Thailand. Moreover, these 20 students have been learning English in China before come to the UK.

Most of students have been learning English more than 10 years. The results were collated and are presented in the following tables and charts.

Results

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In this experiment, one of student was from Thailand and the rest of them were from China. According to this result, there were 6 students have been learning English between 7-8 years. 14 of them have been learning English more than 10 years. Lots of students preferred the UK teaching method to Chinese teaching method. 8 students thought the UK method was more free than the Chinese teaching method, in addition, 3 students thought that the UK teaching method was more interesting. Moreover, above 7 students thought the teaching method in the UK was much easier. 9 students spent 1-4 hours in English study per week; 3 students spent 5-8 hours in English study per week and also 8 students spent more than 10 hours per week. There were 15 students wanted to spend more time learning English when they were in English environment, on the other hand, 5 students did not want to spend more time in learning English. 10 students thought they had improved speaking skill, 2 students thought they had improved reading skill and listening skill, 8 students thought they had improved both speaking skill and listening skill. In the end, 6 students would like to send their children to the UK in the future. The rest of them did not agree with them.