Bilingual education in China 双语教育在中国.doc

Bilingual education in China Preparatory school for minority nationalities, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China Abstract: This paper will talk about the education in China. The paper begin with the definition of bilingual education. Then paper argue the reasons causing appearance of bilingual education. And how to apply bilingual education is also in this paper content. This paper show the current situation of bilingual education in China, then will point out some problems of bilingual education in China. Keywords: bilingual education, teaching mode, problems of bilingual education, The definition of bilingual is that someone could use both languages: his native language and foreign language. He/She can use one foreign language in listening, speaking, reading, writing as well as his/her native language. Of course, his knowledge and abilities of his native language are usually stronger than the second language. The bilingual person is who can proficiently use two language in communication, work and study. The definition of bilingual education is that use secend language or foreign languages in various subjects when teaching students. In other words, though a number of training and the language environment, let the ability of student using foreign or second language can get close to native language, or even replace of. For example, a tibetan people, can speak Tibetan at home with his family, and also can speak Chinese when his is working with his college. There are two things we must make clear. Firstly, bilingual education is using two languages as the medium of instruction. Through learning subject knowledge to master the foreign language. Secondly, bilingual education focus on interaction between teachers and students, and not just listen to teacher teaching in foreign language in whole class. The purpose is learning both foreign language and knowledge of the subject. 1. What produce bilingual education？ After the five years of th