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Title: Statistics on the use of English in China - are there any?
Post by: Calach Pfeffer on March 09, 2021, 08:55:41 PM

Any decent reports or overviews?

We know English is on the way out. It'll take a long time to see it off, decades maybe. But "education reform" is on the horizon. Meanwhile, any reliable, no "attach great importance" descriptions of how it is used currently?

Title: Re: Statistics on the use of English in China - are there any?
Post by: Calach Pfeffer on March 09, 2021, 09:14:11 PM

That I'm aware of, this is the only publication

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236986651_The_statistics_of_English_in_China

includes tables

Frequency in the use of English among respondents who had studied English  (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Frequency-in-the-use-of-English-among-respondents-who-had-studied-English_tbl1_236986651)
The self-rated proficiency in spoken English of respondents who had studied English  (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-self-rated-proficiency-in-spoken-English-of-respondents-who-had-studied-English_tbl3_236986651)
The reported proficiency in reading English among those who had studied English  (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-reported-proficiency-in-reading-English-among-those-who-had-studied-English_tbl2_236986651)

Note: these figures distilled from a survey published in 2006!!!

Title: Re: Statistics on the use of English in China - are there any?
Post by: Nolefan on March 11, 2021, 05:28:31 AM

I'm hearing talks of removing English from the list of mandatory courses in certain levels.. It's apparently under discussion this year.