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Behind China’S English Fever: The Contested Discourses On English Education And People’S Yearning For Flexible Citizenship, Yiming Jin Ms.

GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholars Symposium

I propose a study on China’s English Fever under the interdisciplinary framework of cultural studies. Having taught English at the university level in China, I have had the opportunity not only to witness such a English-learning phenomenon that has been sweeping the country for about three decades, but also to teach students who are incredibly enthusiastic in learning English, regardless of their majors and of their initially drastically different English proficiency levels. What always intrigues me is the question of why: Why are Chinese people so dedicated to learning English? The proposed study is an attempt to look for some …