A Review on English Homework Design in Compulsory Education under the “Double Reduction” Policy

— In 2021, Chinese authorities introduced a set of guidelines to ease the burden of excessive homework and off-campus tutoring for students undergoing compulsory education (the “Double Reduction” policy). As an effective extension of classroom teaching, homework can promote the development of students' personality and core literacy. Research on homework at home and abroad is mainly based on empirical studies, and under the policy of “Double reduction”, this article reviews domestic and foreign researches on English homework design in compulsory education, focusing on the design and correction of homework, homework teaching, homework reduction, and homework reform. And homework research tends to shift from intellectual education to moral education.


INTRODUCTION
As a result of the onslaught of subject-based out-ofschool training, academic competition at the compulsory education has intensified, the financial burden on families has increased, and the disparity in the educational resources received by students has widened, seriously affecting the public interest and fairness of compulsory education. On July 24, 2021, the "Double Reduction" policy was introduced in China to reduce students' homework and academic tutoring burden. "Double reduction" policy has been widely implemented in primary and secondary schools across the country, not only to reduce the heavy workload of students, but also improve the quality of homework design, and systematically design basic homework that conforms to the characteristics of age and the laws of learning, and reflects the orientation of quality education.
And reducing the burden of homework is also considered to be a powerful lever for prying the reform of classroom teaching in schools.
Homework is an effective extension of teachers' classroom teaching, a consolidation and deepening of students' classroom learning achievements, and also an important way of students' extra-curricular learning (Gu Mingyuan, 1990). Homework is also an important way for students to cultivate the habit of completing homework independently and to improve their self-management ability.  to make children learn more easily and vividly, and learn more, learn faster and learn better in a state of great interest.
The original intention of "reducing the burden" is to improve the quality of the nation and to produce more and better talents.

Definition of homework
The term "homework" has a long history in China, first appeared in the pre-Qin literature "Guanzi -Qing Zhong Ding", " The order was issued for half a year, and when the people heard about it, more than half of them gave up their daily business and built warehouses to store grain. " Here, In German, however, homework is a derogatory term for a kind of drudgery, and the word 'Arbeit' meant nothing more than slave labor or service. But as work was extended to crafts and fishing, as well as spiritual work, the connotation gradually changed to simply a feeling of work, more like the neutral perception of work in Chinese and Lessing and Kant were the first to apply "homework" from physical labor to mental labor, forming the concept of "book assignments" and "mental work. Homework is an important and effective supplement to education and teaching.
In modern times, the field of education has given full play to the scope of application of this concept, and more and more attention to play the important educational value of homework. In the 19th century, the German educator Herbart's educational ideology began to influence the European school. In his book "General Pedagogy", Helbart advocated students to apply and practice the knowledge they had learned after class, this work was extended to the home to allow more time for teaching in the school classroom, and homework became a continuation of inclass learning. Since then, homework has been gradually recognized by teachers and students as a continuation of inclass learning.

Amount of homework
It is difficult to define the amount of homework in domestic and international studies, and most scholars measure the amount of work according to the amount of junior high school should not be more than 90 minutes.

Types of homework
Homework is wide-ranging and varied. Scholars have  IJELS-2023, 8(4), (ISSN: 2456-7620)  interests, be based on the textbooks but beyond the textbooks, and cultivate students' creative thinking and critical thinking.