I often meet students who have graduated from work and are called "Teacher Sun". It is ridiculed that after learning English for many years, I have forgotten everything and know nothing about English. Later, the class that gave my students was called "Grandteacher" (derived from Grandfather), and some classes were called "Greatgrandteacher". This is perhaps the highest honor I have received from teaching for nearly four decades.
What exactly English is, to give it a definition, to give students a reasonable explanation, has been haunting and confusing. One day in the headlines, I saw an article by Einstein on education, and it turned out that he had already answered the question of the classmate. "Education is what is left after a person has forgotten everything he has learned in school."
As the scientist said, English remains in your brain. But most Chinese students forget because they don't use it, leaving only fragmented words or sentences. Here are a few example sentences to explore the problem of Learning English.
1.The goal of the language program is to teach children social and academic English. (The goal of this language program is to teach children social and academic English.) English in this sentence refers to a general concept, is a public good, is not quantitative, and can be learned by anyone.
- English is the language,originally of England,now spoken in many other countries and used as a language of international communication throughout the
world. (Originally English Chinese, English is now used as the language of international communication in many other countries.) )
The English in this sentence, as in the previous sentence, refers to the concept in general, is a public good, and belongs to all mankind. It exists outside our consciousness, in the form of printed English (printed English) in books, newspapers and periodicals and other printed materials; in the information age, it is stored in the form of electrical signals in network databases, as well as in various digital products, that is, Digital English.
- I want to improve my English.
(I want to improve my English.) The English in this sentence is proprietary and belongs to an individual. The brain processes and organizes the input English materials, continuously strengthens and stores them in its own complex brain neural network, forming long-term memory and English cognitive structure.
We introduced the mathematical concepts of quantities and sets into English and compared the two nouns, which are very different. English and My English are subset relationships within a collection. In fact, as a collective noun, English contains boundless content, and the literary works created in English are vast, and the English corpus that can be involved in a person's life is only a dime. With the development of modernization and globalization, the Empire spread English to all parts of the world, forming many branches and becoming countable nouns, referring to different kinds. Divided by region: British English, American English, Canadian English, Australian English, Indian English, etc. Decades of reform and opening up, Chinese also created Chinese English or Chinglish. In addition, to engage in scientific research, you must learn a variety of professional academic English, and all walks of life have industry English.
The English we learn is just a drop in the vast ocean of English, sometimes negligible. In the Internet information age, these abstract English terms can be quantified and quantified with specific numbers, and the quantitative units are kb, mb, gb. Just like our college entrance examination English, CET4-6 college level 4 and 6, TOEFL TOEFL, IELTS IELTS trial score to evaluate.
In fact, every noun in English has quantitative variations in sentences and articles, formally appearing as countable or uncountable nouns. In addition, each noun is preceded by an article, and the definite article thes mean specifically, an means a general reference, and a zero article indicates a general reference.