Sonia Holland and Erin O'Brien, both 26, pay about $570 a month for their spacious two-bedroom apartment in Guangzhou, China.

Yilin Ye, a student from Anji, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, China, is spending time abroad at the University of Zaragoza in Spain. Ye, 25, said she first started learning Spanish after having ...

In a campaign against Western influence, China is rejecting the use of the English language in its educational institutions.Li Yuan, writing in The New York Times (NYT) said that it was hard to ...

A recent survey shows that China has a low proficiency in English. The finding was in Education First's English Proficiency Index, a ranking of English-language abilities worldwide. Between 2009 and ...

HONG KONG - A leading university in China has removed an English language test from its degree requirements amid a growing debate about the subject's practical benefits for many people. Xian Jiaotong ...

"Where are you from? Do you speak English?" It's a familiar phrase near the Forbidden City in Beijing, or along the capital's Nanjing Road, as Chinese people try a standard opening gambit to spark up ...

In China, learning spoken English is giving rise to a huge and growing market. For instance, in addition to English classes in public schools, parents send their children to about 50,000 for-profit ...