Teaching English as a Foreign Language in China: Teachers and Students’ Attitudes to the Communicative Approach, Learner-Centering, and Learners’ Autonomy

Modern language teaching’ especially English teaching as a foreign language, is now based on two fundamental approaches traditional one with the teacher dominated and the new emerging one with the learner centered. This paper is a study of the survey of Chinese students regarding the attitudes of the two approaches on English learning. The conclusion of the research is positive on the new emerging approach of English learning by Chinese students.