Analysis of Differences in Chinese and English Classroom Teaching

With the Double Reduction policy and the globalization trend in the Chinese economic environment, the educational exchanges are becoming more and more frequent between the world and China. Based on the traditional teaching method, the classroom teaching in China is facing the demand for a transformation as students are completely different compared to twenty years ago with the help of information revolution. Since more and more teachers in China are trying to build a student-centered classroom, the comparative study of classroom teaching between China and the U.K. turns out to be a necessary subject. Based on this, this paper compares the differences between classroom teaching in China and the UK. First, through the observation of two different classroom teaching methods, the paper gives the description of two classroom teaching systems which contains the approaches and the content of classroom teaching. Second, through the comparative study, it investigates the causes, advantages and disadvantages of two teaching strategies to analyze the similarities and differences then provide potential ways can apply the existing experience to a Chinese classroom. Third, the paper provides suggestions for Chinese teachers to make the classroom more efficient with student-center approaches.