【正文】 or domain the situation belongs to. The six factors he describes are in the scope of nonlinguistic context. His theory of context is thought to be appropriate and is an instruction for us to build a more plete and systematical theory of context. Moreover, his illustration of context by means of knowledge is quite illuminating. D. H. Hymes, an American socialist, categorizes the context into eight ponents: setting, participant, ends, art characteristics, key, instrumentalities, norms of interaction and of interpretation, and genres. In China, many scholars have e to realize the importance of context in understanding the meanings of words and sentences etc. He Zhaoxiong, Hu Zhuanglin and other linguists also make a good study on context. Chapter 3 English Learning in Chinese Context Actuality of English Learning in ChinaWith the opening and reforming, English has been an important course in schools. More and more people have realized the importance of English and bee English learners to meet the challenges. In China, English is taught in most primary schools in the cities from Grade Three and in all the middle schools in the whole country. In a long term, English will be a major course from primary school to university learning. Even though one has graduated from university, he has to get in touch with English frequently. In China, CET4 and CET6 are set in most colleges and basically everyone has to pass the CET4, and everyone is trying his best to pass them. To some learners, English is a new thing and due to curiosity, they may have enough warmness and confidence at the beginning of English learning. Later, when they meet various difficulties and blocks, they lost their enthusiasm and confidence gradually even at last, most of them have to give it up. To some students and some adults, the purpose to learn English is only to meet the demands of exams. According to some surveys, we are seriously affected by the native language –Chinese. A lot of people can not break away from the control of the native language, because the two languages are quite different in some aspects. Factors Affecting English LearningThe Chinese context has a great influence on English learning in China. Both English learners and English teachers always face this problem that how learners can master English language. Research shows that native language and native language context are the major blocks in the way to learning English. It is generally a bemusement: English learners in China have learned it for a long time, but English learners in China still can not see the progress. English speakers and Chinese speakers have different thoughts. English learners in China are always under the influence of Chinese context, so it is so difficult to have significant progress. In the last 20 years, the environment of English learning has changed a lot in China. We can see the rapid development in English learning. Otherwise, no matter how great the changes are, we are still in the Chinese context which is not changeable. So, the fact that we should not disengage the Chinese thoughts has an opposite effect on English learning everywhere and anytime. In fact, how Chinese context affect the English learning. The Restriction of Social ContextChinese and English are two very different languages and belong to different linguistic systems. To Chinese people, English is a second language. On the other hand, most of the Chinese English learners only depend on the teaching in the classroom, so they have few opportunities to municate with a native English speaker face to face. Many surveys show that the infant time is the golden time to learn languages. Here we can imagine that if a baby is taught in English, Japanese and Spanish since he was born, when he grows up he can speak three kinds of languages at the same time. Even though he does not know the grammar, he can speak every language very fluently. For most Chinese, they do not know the grammar at all, but all of them can speak Chinese fluently. There is another phenomenon: if there is one English speaker or English teacher in the family, their baby always has a good English achievement. All of these show that Chinese social context has a great influence in English learning. Professor Sun Mianzhi quoted Professor Xiong Deni’s speech, “ I always pare English Learning to a besiegement. Your English is the Besieger and of course your mother tongue is the one besieged. You mand your army of English to break through the line of defense until you overtake the stronghold—your mother tongue.”（Translated）. But it is really a hard job because you are pletely surrounded by the enemy troops and your enemy is so strong. Differences between the Two LanguagesTo learn English well, it is necessary to know the details of it. Firstly, when you are learning the pronunciation, you will be corrected for several times. Sometimes, you want to say go to somewhere by ship, but because you pronounce it too long, some others think that you “go somewhere by sheep”. When you can not separate[r] and [l], you will read rice(米飯) as lice(虱子). Secondly, in the grammar you always make mistakes like this: I am student, it raining hard, against this plan, etc. Thirdly, in the acceptation, once you have written “my English level low”. Sometimes even you want to “keep diary” but you use “keeping notes or writing everyday note”. Some sentences like “go buy thing and write with English” always appear in your articles. Fourthly, in pragmatics: you once called David Smith Teacher Smith or Mr. David. And we know Father, Mother, Sister in English is quite different from our Chinese. A teacher is very kind and easygoing. The students like her very much. They think she is just like their mother. But we can never call her Mother Teresa, because in English, Father, Mo