The Role of Language in International Education an

The Role of Language in International Education

and Development

Yuqing He

Jincheng College, Sichuan University

Abstract: Today, when international education is becoming more and more

important and being valued by people, learning several foreign languages

seems to be the public’s primary countermeasure against this phenomenon of

internationalization. Language is the bridge of this kind of communication. Hopkins

said: “Language is the image and reflection of ideas.” The essence of international

education is the collision and exchange of multiple very important

reason is that people learn the languages of other civilizations.

Keywords: International education

;

Language internationalization

;

Cultural

integration

DOI: 10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250027.20210511

The sociality of language determines its widespread use in all classes of

society. The development of international education also must promote the

development of language learning. International education refers to education on a

global scale that transcends countries. Studying abroad is the most important and

direct manifestation of international education. In 2017, the number of Chinese

students studying abroad exceeded the 600,000 mark for the first time, continuing

to maintain its status as the world’s largest source of international

of the upsurge of foreign language learning and education to society is that it has

promoted the substantial development of related education,training and publishing

cost of international education has always been high, but it is also

due to the large vacancies for such basic talents. To cultivate more international

education talents, language learning must be promoted to a very high position.

Even in the context of globalization for one or two years, we can still see from

the official data of IELTS that the number of IELTS applicants in Mainland

China reached 50,000 in 2019, among which the A-type (academic) candidates

accounted for 77%. As one of the most famous international standardized English

proficiency tests in the ing to the 2019 Report on the Development

of China’s Language Education Service Industry, by the end of 2018, there were

About the author: Yuqing He (2002-05), female, Han nationality, Origin: Mianyang City,

Sichuan Province, Education: Undergraduate Research direction: Linguistics.

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9,734 companies operating language services as their main business purpose,

with the total output value of language services reaching 37.2 billion yuan. In

December 2020, QS released a survey of international students entitled

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EDUCATION IN 2020: HOW COVID-19 SHAPED THIS YEAR.

The report

focused on 887 prospective students’ attitudes toward studying abroad and

their views on the upcoming academic year. The percentage of students who

unexpectedly choose 2021 is rising. Of course, this is also due to the trend of stable

epidemic prevention and control status and policies of various countries. In this

special international situation, language learning and professional learning are

more ing to the survey, online courses are still the main teaching

method for overseas students from September to November. In fact in the end,

lost was supposed to have the language environment of students, will have greater

demand on the international language education.

To seize the opportunity to expand its influence, it must start from a public

foundation. Language involves everyone’s daily life, and this is also the best place

for the public to start the internationalization of education. Since the 1980s, from

the coastal areas to the inland areas of China, the learning of a second foreign

language in primary and secondary schools has emerged in many more developed

cities. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, China gradually

incorporated English teaching into the compulsory curriculum of primary and

secondary schools, and has been expanding the scope of English popularization.

The Chinese syllabus from 1988 to 2000 highlighted the instrumental

characteristics of English. The current curriculum standards stipulate that the

overall goal is to cultivate students’ comprehensive language ability. Since 1989,

every college student has to take CET-4 and CET-6. Language knowledge and

language skills are the foundation of comprehensive language use ability, cultural

awareness is the guarantee for the proper use of language, emotional attitudes

and values are important factors that affect students’ learning and development.

Large tourist cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Wuhan are also the most

important cities in China with the largest external worker order

to promote the development of cultural media in these cities, increase people’s

sense of belonging and identity to the original culture of the city,most museums

and cultural places are open to the public for free. Behind these huge demands

for cultural life are higher requirements for language communication and quality

spiritual life. In Chengdu, college students can find recruitment information for

volunteers or paid staff in museums, historical galleries, art galleries, commercial

exhibitions and music festivals on various social media and public platforms.

Foreign language students have a wider range of options. For example, many

language students are required or voluntarily take CATTI ted by the

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of

China, this vocational qualification certificate is a national vocational qualification

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certificate implemented and managed by China Foreign Languages Publishing and

Distribution Administration. It is a unified professional translation certification

for the whole society implemented in China. For a city, that needs to quickly

improve the efficiency of cultural communication, expand its cultural influence and

achieve healthy cultural competition, the participation of language college students

reduces the cost of the government’s search for professionals and improves the

development efficiency of cultural identity. In these cases, language always acts as

a medium or a special benign catalyst. All of these directions are closely related to

people’s basic urban life. In order to make the children in some poverty-stricken

areas of China truly feel the diversity of the world culture, as a tool and motivation

for them to leave the poverty-stricken areas, language education is self-evident. In

2017, ODP Funds in China launched a questionnaire survey, the results showed that

72% of young people were willing to participate in volunteer teaching activities.

By 2019, the foundation had sent a total of 32 volunteer teams from colleges to

provide grassroots education in poverty-stricken areas, which not only covers basic

subject knowledge, but also includes cultural interaction and language education. In

this field, many students still stay in the stage of dialect learning and being taught.

Even though the importance of international language education is widely known

today, the implementation process is still being questioned. These weak foundations

require us to work together to solidify public demand, and we are all involved.

A variety of new vocabularies are derived from Internet communication, which

will incorporate the commonalities of languages between multiple civilizations.

This has also given birth to a series of educational methods, language education

professions and learning internationalization of the new vocabularies

make many things that cannot be understand by students from different language

background simple and vivid. For example, English and French, the pronunciation

of French is partly different from that of English, but due to the spread of many

English words, the pronunciation of English words can also be directly used in

French. This is the same in the introduction of Chinese vocabulary into English.

The phenomenon of interoperability between Chinese and foreign languages

began as early as ancient times. Most of the new vocabulary formed by the

intercommunication of these languages is through mainstream transliteration, free

translation and borrowed form. Transliteration has names such as various alcoholic

beverages, and it is very straightforward that people need to have a certain

understanding of the etymology of the vocabulary combined with

transliteration and free translation is richer, and semantics and fonts generally merge

two or more cultural r, pure transliteration does not conform to

the laws of the Chinese character system, and it will be more difficult for scholars

in the native Chinese environment to understand it culturally. Therefore, when

Chinese absorbs or derives foreign vocabulary and short sentences, it often adds

free translation elements on the basis of transliteration. Even so, some poems and

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proverbs, no matter how hard the translator works, cannot restore their own cultural

heritage and artistic conception. In this era of exponential changes in vocabulary,

majors, and everyday language on the Internet, language learning must not be

stagnant. As the oldest and most important social tool and nature, linguistics today

can no longer be learned in a closed and inefficient way.

Networking can well stimulate students’ interest in learning. Now the

international teachers’ team is constantly expanding. In China, ICA has become

one of the certificates considered by many language learners in college. Many

language teachers can participate in online or offline language teaching as soon

as they graduate. Which attracting more people to join this group. ICATEST is

a standardized test organized by the International Chinese Language Teachers

Association. Usually known as ICA International Chinese Teacher Professional

Qualification certificate, issued by THE ICA organization evaluation certification,

has become the authoritative brand of international Chinese ing to

the June 2021 China-foreign Language Exchange and Cooperation Center, more

than 180 countries and regions have carried out Chinese education in more than 70

countries to integrate Chinese into their national education overseas

edition of the People’s Daily said that on June2, the Ministry of Education and the

State Language Commission released in Beijing the Chinese language and language

life situation in of 25 January 2021, Chinese officially became the

official language of the United Nations World Tourism Organization. Relying on

Internet resources, Chinese learners have a broad channel of communication and

learning. In fact, since its launch in October 2019, the Global Chinese Learning

Platform has brought together Chinese learning resources to provide intelligent

Chinese learning paths. In 2020, international Chinese education has been affected

by the epidemic, which has also forced the global Chinese learning platform to

be further optimized and improved. Today, the platform product content is more

abundant, oral evaluation engine, tone correction and other key technologies to

achieve breakthroughs.

With the rapid development of language, we can no longer use old language

concepts to look at future language education and international

growth of a language talent is inseparable from an open international education

environment.I believe that peace has always been the most important theme of the

international community, and the development of international education is also

an unstoppable historical process. Starting from the language, to learn the cultures

from different countries and regions seriously, and then feel the development of

international education together.

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