Bilingual education is facing new challenges.doc

Bilingual education is facing new challenges Abstract The importance of language education, school education can not be ignored. Bilingual education is the school curriculum on language matters. Bilingual education is not in school, set up two separate language courses, but rather through the use of two kinds of language as a teaching medium to help students learn two kinds of intentional and unintentional use of language skills. There is a two kinds of languages is usually student’s mother tongue, and the other students to master a foreign language (target language). In the classroom teachers insisted on using the target language, but allows students to only make the best of circumstances, only the use of the target language, which is the key to bilingual education. The article also describes U.S. art in the fields of bilingual education, the dynamic and changes, indicating bilingual education is facing challenges and thus proved that excessive use of the bilingual curriculum will affect the mother tongue of students in the target language acquisition, thereby reducing the Bilingual Education results. Bilingual education, curriculum reform in China is becoming a hot topic. But “bilingual education” really should be how to understand this concept? The so-called bilingual education, with the goal really is to train students to have two kinds of language skills. However, the means to achieve this goal not by the target language as a subject, for example, the English and Chinese as two separate courses. Accurate, he said, bilingual education refers to using two kinds of language as the medium of instruction, so that the use of students through the medium of instruction to achieve the ultimate goal to master both languages. “Language education” and “education language” for this definition, bilingual education, some scholars have done clearly spelled out. Cummings (Cummins) pointed out: “One of the most basic difference is to look at bilingual education i