![]() ![]() According to longtime English teacher Yu Zilong, “ NCE has a complete and well-tried system for learning English as a foreign language, enabling students to reach their maximum potential in the four primary skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.” 2 This development proved to be so widespread, particularly in larger cities, that English comprehension and literacy has found its way onto national Chinese academic exams and college entry requirements. Therefore, it is not uncommon for parents to begin enrolling their pre-school aged children in English lessons. Bilingual fluency is an increased assurance of financial and career-oriented success. Today, it is a well-known fact that learning English is an imperatively important facet of education, especially at an early age, being that it is becoming the primary global mode of communication. ![]() However, with the mid-20th-century global market economy rising to encompass many multi-national corporations under the common English tongue, the demand for English fluency, beginning at a very early age, flourished. Original Chinese to English textbooks tended to be politically charged and laced with ideological agendas. ![]() New Concept English’s remains popular as it is sold on Amazon and other websites to this day. 1 But how did this fundamental, engaging, and well-respected coursework come to prominence? Alexander’s New Concept English combined conversational, cultural and grammatical/vocabularic skill with funny and charming stories and lessons, which simply made learning English for kids fun, thus, endearing. This pedagogic formulation is considered to be the code cracker for Chinese to English studies and has been in circulation with many reprints since its initial publication in 1967. NCE is an abbreviation we are all too familiar with, being that we still teach these courses on our very own online platform. He set the precedent of English learning throughout the country and established principles, methodologies, and approaches we still practice today- particularly his four-part, ground-breaking textbook series, New Concept English. Louis George Alexander was a British linguistic pioneer who, having written numerous pedagogical coursebooks and theories in the mid 20th century, greatly inspired the English learning experience in the Chinese classroom. The Importance of New Concept English and its Continued Relevance in ESL Curricula This English language curriculum revolutionized the way English was previously taught by incorporating storytelling, conversation and cultural topics rather than focusing merely on rote repetition and memorization. New Concept English is an English language curriculum created by Louis George Alexander, and first published in 1967. ![]()
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