https://thenanfang.com/difficult-english-examination-chinese-middle-students-shocks-netizens/ Daily news and views from China. Sat, 17 Dec 2016 10:15:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 https://thenanfang.com/difficult-english-examination-chinese-middle-students-shocks-netizens/#comment-12170 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:37:00 +0000 http://thenanfang.com/?p=70256#comment-12170 I’m pretty sure my 4YO can answer most of these.

]]> https://thenanfang.com/difficult-english-examination-chinese-middle-students-shocks-netizens/#comment-12167 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:26:00 +0000 http://thenanfang.com/?p=70256#comment-12167 It looks typical to me. Multiple choice allows for fast and easy test marking and the emphasis on asking questions about Chinese topics reinforces the basis for learning proper Chinglish.

]]> https://thenanfang.com/difficult-english-examination-chinese-middle-students-shocks-netizens/#comment-12163 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 18:23:00 +0000 http://thenanfang.com/?p=70256#comment-12163 There are a lot of grammatical mistakes in the questions themselves. And it seems strange to use almost exclusively Chinese cultural references in constructing the test. But I guess this is not exactly a new phenomenon… English instruction in China long ago ceased to be used to enable students to communicate effectively with foreigners. It is now its own self-contained universe which needs no external justification.

]]> https://thenanfang.com/difficult-english-examination-chinese-middle-students-shocks-netizens/#comment-12162 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:26:00 +0000 http://thenanfang.com/?p=70256#comment-12162 The strange thing is that several of the questions have nothing to do with English whatsoever…for example, the questions on Zheng He, Peking Opera, and Weiqi….

]]>