A Comparison and Research on the Sino-U.S Bilingual Education

Baoren Su

doi:10.5539/ass.v5n8p73

Abstract

With the coming of era of global economic integration and knowledge economy, China is increasingly opening its door to the outside world and actively making connection with international society. Under such circumstance, the Chinese education, especially higher learning education will certainly has a very close connection and interaction with the international education system, and this also means that Chinese higher learning education system will face the new challenge of how to train Chinese students to handle the international competition with bilingual ability. Therefore, it will be helpful for us to have a comparison and research on the bilingual education in China and the United States.

Highlights

IntroductionThere are lots of things in common for China and the U
Today, there are lots of things in common for China and the U
The Americans look at bilingual education as a remedy of language education for those ethnic students so as to make them to enter into so-called main stream education as soon as possible

Summary

Introduction

There are lots of things in common for China and the U. The efficiency of China’s collegiate bilingual instruction is under debating, and the relevant research work on it should be done before we learn how bilingual education may be usefully and efficiently provided to different people with various educational needs.*bilingual education seeks to develop a foundation of a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life and a just, compassionate, and flourishing society. Many children of immigrants possess all four skills solely in the official language of their country, while may be able to understand only the spoken form of their mother tongue and barely be able to speak it, since they are bilingual only in receiving the spoken form of two languages, in listening comprehension. Within each skill there could be differing abilities in each language, for example, an English Chinese bilingual educated through English could be much more proficient at writing English than Chinese, while his spoken Chinese could be better than his spoken English

Bilingual education in China’s Colleges and Universities

Lack of Teaching and Learning Environment for bilingual education

Lack of Updated Teaching Materials and Resources

Lack of Qualified Teaching Faculty

Government’s management and research for bilingual education

Conclusion