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ol to communicate with others. But, most of the Chinese English teachers still adopt the traditional teaching pattern to teach English. This is unscientific and strongly affects the training of talents.
A The Problems Related to the Educational System
The basic pattern of traditional English teaching is so-called PPP patterns (Wang Qiang, 2006), that is, presentation, practice and production. The character of this pattern is succinctness and easy for operation. To be sure, the traditional teaching pattern is not all defective and still has its own advantage. The PPP patterns pay attention to imparting the basic knowledge, especially grasping the basic knowledge, so the students still reserve certain knowledge. It just doesn’t display correctly and effectively. The examination also has its advantage as the way to check the students’ knowledge. By exams, the teachers can know the present ability of the students and then adjust their teaching method. But, this pattern has fatal weakness in a language’s learning.

1. The Teacher-Centered Teaching Mode
In the traditional English classroom, the teachers have the absolute authority. The teachers are the organizer and main operator in the teaching process. The teachers decide what contents and how much they teach, and how to teach. The students can hardly have a hand in these processes. In the classroom, they just can hear the teachers’ voice. The students just are passive listeners and follow the teachers’ instruction to study step by step. (Yang SiGeng, 2003) This teaching pattern leads to the reverse of the subject and object. If the teachers talk too much and have a fast speed in their classroom, the chance they can give the students to grasp the knowledge and use it in actual situation is fewer. The students have no time to think and absorb the knowledge that has been imparted in time. Thus, the knowledge that the students cannot understand accumulates gradually and affects the future learning. Besides, in the class, most of the teachers are busy with talking and the students are also engaged in remembering the key points. There are no communications between them, so the classroom is very depressing. In this atmosphere, the students have no interest in learning. It’s natural that the students cannot master knowledge.
2. The Test-Oriented Education
A popular pet phrase that the students often talk is “the examination is the teachers’ talisman, but the score is the students’ lifeblood.” To most people, they have the deep experience for this.
To meet the entrance exams, most schools hold the model test every month. At the beginning, the students prepare for the test carefully. With time going on, the students are insensible for the test. Maybe every student has the experience for this test mode.
We observe that the students’ proficiency in English is decided upon their scores in exams, but not on their use of the language in actual situation. Thus, the classroom teaching is that the teachers talk about some related key points about language structure and the students are just asked to practice these language rules for rote learning. On the other hand, many middle schools give the teachers too much pressure to raise the school’s proportion of students’ entrance to the senior high school. Under this pressure, the knowledge that the teachers give the students’ has no applicability. It’s just for the entrance exam. At the same time, the teachers neglect the prac