Parents turn to Internet for tutoring
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Chinese parents are willing to spend a fortune on English tutoring for their children, regardless of their financial situation.
In big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, parents are turning to online tutors instead of sending their children to a language school, said a report by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The report followed more than 200,000 young learners and their parents, and over 30,000 North American tutors on China’s three biggest online English tutoring platforms.
VIPKID, 51Talk and vipJr jointly make up 80 percent of the market in China and the average age of online learners is 6, according to the report.
Of the surveyed parents, 73 percent said they spend at least 10,000 yuan (US$1,580) on online English classes each year and they prefer to hire tutors from North America, believing them to have good pronunciation and lively teaching styles. Many parents hope their children will attend university in the United States or Canada.
Many parents complained about the time cost of delivering their children to classes and the unbalanced competence of foreign tutors in traditional classes.
“The survey shows it can take parents up to two and a half hours to take their children to class and wait. Online tutoring saves them a lot of time,” said the report.
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