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LIU Xuliang
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2026.05.001
University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
As China moves ever closer to the center of the world stage, building international discourse power commensurate with its comprehensive national strength has become increasingly urgent. However, as a key pillar and main battleground in this endeavour, the current English education system—constrained by its long-standing drawbacks of one-way input and reception paradigm—is now hindering this process. Based on an in-depth analysis of how the “receptive” model influences and weakens China’s international discourse power, this paper proposes a “projective shift” in the English education paradigm—That is, a transition from passively “receiving” Western discourse and culture to actively “projecting” Chinese thinking and values, thereby better serving the tasks and objectives of national cultural outreach and the construction of international discourse power in the new era.
international discourse power, English education system, reception paradigm, projective shift, Chinese discourse, critical discourse competence
LIU Xuliang. From Reception to Projection: Reconstructing the English Education System to Serve the Construction of China's International Discourse Power. US-China Foreign Language, May
2026, Vol. 24, No. 5, 175-181 doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2026.05.001
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