【正文】 s and values. The new curriculum reform increased the contact between students and their social life, which made the course content more specific and full of flavor of life. The new basic education curriculum reform emphasizes a peopleoriented concept. The core idea is for all of students and for each student’s development. China’s rural population accounts for about % of all. Junior high school students in rural areas account for almost 2 / 3 of the total number. It’s obvious that the development of basic English education in rural areas in China plays a vital role in improving the overall population quality of China. Because of the differences in the education development in different areas, there exists a serious imbalance between urban and rural areas and the English teaching quality of different rural regions differs. Establishing a harmonious society not only requires to narrow the difference between urban and rural but also requires to gradually eliminate the imbalance in education in different areas. However, affected by social environment, teaching conditions and many other factors, there exists a big gap of English teaching quality in rural junior high school pared with cities. The English education in rural areas gets less attention pared with cities from society and people and China’s investment in English education in rural areas is far behind cities. As many people know, the equipment in rural areas is far behind cities, which leads into the poor teaching condition. Aims and Significance of the Study1) Aims of this Study First, it is for a better understanding of the situation of students’ English learning of rural junior high school. Second, it analyses the main reasons why students have a low interest in learning English and get inadequate attention on English. Third, it explores some solutions to the problems that the survey reflects. The most important thing is that this research can provide English educationists and the regulationmakers some advice. 2) Significance(1) Theoretical significance It can provide a reference for a deep research about rural English learning. Through this survey, the author obtains firsthand data and detailed information about rural English teaching and learning, which can reflect in some extent the real problems existing in rural schools and provide a reference for further research in related fields. Develop and rich the rural education theory. As the countryside building of China is going vigorously today, the theory forum has focused on the new socialist countryside issues and the rural education. Research scholars are trying to find out a rural education theory that suits the development of rural education. This article will give some help in the development and richness of rural education theory.(2) Practical significance First, it can enable the vast students in rural areas to face up to their existing problems and better learning methods to boot learning efficiency, and then make rural English teachers rightly eye the existing problems that students face in the process of English learning. The last but not least, it can provide references for the educationists to establish the solution to the English teaching and it can give the author a lot of help in the ing teaching career with no doubt. Researching MethodsLiterature method: the author looked for a lot of articles and monographs about rural education and summarized the previous research achievements and get a basic picture about it. It is also a prejob for this paper. Questionnaire: the author surveyed students’ English learning situation on questionnaire to have a better understanding of rural English teaching and students’ English learning. Observation and interviews: I had my fulltime teaching internship at Shanwei Junior High School for two months. During this period, I often talked about the English teaching with English teachers and leaders there, after that, I exchanged my experience of internship with senior teaching students of Guangxi Normal University and Guangxi University. Through my own teaching experience and munication with them, I have a better understanding of rural English teaching, at the same time, I also get a certain amount of research material for this study. Organization of the ThesisThis paper consists of five parts. To be more specific, it spreads out as follows:Chapter one is the introduction, mainly introduces the researching background, researching aims and significance, researching methods, and the organization of the thesis. Chapter two is the literature review. These chapter overviews some main researches about the English teaching and students’ English learning in rural areas both home and abroad. Chapter three is the survey. It introduces the purpose, objects, design and analysis of the survey. At last, it tells some main findings and corresponding reasons through the questionnaire. Chapter four introduces some solutions to better students’ English learning.Chapter five summarizes this study and introduces the limitations of this study and future efforts for the study.2. Literature Review Researches in China Confucius said that who likes is better than one knows and who enjoys is better than who likes. Zhang Zai, Song dynasty of China, thought interest is a very important psychological condition of learning. If you have a little or no interest to do something, then you will loss your mind and you will learn nothing. Zhu Xi also stressed the importance of interest in learning. He thought you can learn well in a condition that you are interested in it. Therefor, we are aware that China holds the tradition of working hard and the idea of learning by interest. Cai Yuanpei, the first president of Pecking University, advocated heuristic education, which make students interested in what they are learning. He thought that what matters more in teaching i