ENGLISH OR CHINGLISH

A great deal has been written and said about various approaches to the successful methodology for teaching English as a foreign/second language in China. Entire professional journals are devoted to the subject, such as Teaching English In China (now called CELEA Journal ), and Foreign Language Teaching and Research, to name a couple. But no matter how much is written, and no matter what teaching method is employed ; the bottom line is that the average Chinese student learns to orally communicate in Chinglish i. e. Mandarin sprinkled with English or English with Mandarin induced syntax.