This is a review about literature on the conditions of bilingual education.Three important parts will be included in this review:a simple description of something concerned about the chosen literature;its definitions,...This is a review about literature on the conditions of bilingual education.Three important parts will be included in this review:a simple description of something concerned about the chosen literature;its definitions,reasons for implementing bilingual education,contexts,models or types,aims and outcomes,tendency and shift of bilingual education and its studies ;four research questions and some related reasons.It is supposed to lay a basis for investigation on whether bilingual education (involving English and Chinese) can be carried out further in the current conditions of China.展开更多
This paper introduces two kinds of conceptions of bilingualism existing in China. One is traditional bilingualism, and the other refers to using a foreign language-English as an instrument to teach specialist subjects...This paper introduces two kinds of conceptions of bilingualism existing in China. One is traditional bilingualism, and the other refers to using a foreign language-English as an instrument to teach specialist subjects, which is called modern bilingualism. Then the emphasis is put on the latter to analyze the current circumstances in China, and its own affective factors and difficulties confronting it have been taken into account.展开更多
While the increasing development of modern information technology, the globalization is becoming an obvious feature on educational situations. Therefore, mastering some necessary bilingual competencies will present es...While the increasing development of modern information technology, the globalization is becoming an obvious feature on educational situations. Therefore, mastering some necessary bilingual competencies will present essential meaning for educators. In the case of language teachers who teaching in the ethnically plural countries, for instance, China, the United States, language teachers have to face to various difficulties on the process of teaching in the bilingual class. Currently, the advanced technology is gradually being applied into language teaching, and then provides a series of advantages on improving the quality of language teaching. Firstly, the essay will analyse the barriers which exist in the language class, which in the level of Chinese university. Secondly, it will systematically describe how ICT can help language teachers to solve difficulties on teaching and display diverse innovative technological tools of language teaching.展开更多
Under the trend of globalization and international financial integration,Chinese scholars have argued that executing bilingual education in the major of finance is necessary to advance the comprehensive quality and co...Under the trend of globalization and international financial integration,Chinese scholars have argued that executing bilingual education in the major of finance is necessary to advance the comprehensive quality and competitive ability of college students.However,universities attempting to implement bilingual education are procrastinated with many obstacles.To resolve this issue,corrective measures are to be given in the aspects of textbook publishing,professor training and curriculum adjustments.展开更多
The present problems of bilingual teaching in local colleges in west China and are analyzed,and the countermeasures also are presented.The aim is to carry out bilingual teaching well in local colleges in west China.
The development of education in China has become increasingly international.Therefore,carrying out bilingual teach ing in Universities is of great significance to cultivating international talents.However,the current ...The development of education in China has become increasingly international.Therefore,carrying out bilingual teach ing in Universities is of great significance to cultivating international talents.However,the current bilingual teaching in Universi ties of our country is not optimistic,facing many difficulties and challenges.In order to provide students with advanced interna tional and dynamic culture,educators should continue to explore research and analyze bilingual teaching rationally and work out effective measures.展开更多
This essay discuses the feasibility of adopting strong bilingual education in some international schools in China. It will ex-plain the theory, pedagogical principles,benefits and assessment of CLIL pedagogy.
It is acknowledged that bilingual educaiton,as a new way in teaching,has attracted much attention in China for several years.This language policy gains praises from supporters but also causes lots of controversies wit...It is acknowledged that bilingual educaiton,as a new way in teaching,has attracted much attention in China for several years.This language policy gains praises from supporters but also causes lots of controversies with its relevant limitations.The present paper provides a brief review of the broad historical development of bilingual education in China,analyzes the unsolved problems and offers some recommendations for bilingual education to make it develop more smoothly and successfully.展开更多
Bilingual education has more than 50-years' history in the world.It has gained the attention from the world since 1960s in some western countries,such as the USA and Canada.With the growth of international busines...Bilingual education has more than 50-years' history in the world.It has gained the attention from the world since 1960s in some western countries,such as the USA and Canada.With the growth of international business and the appearance of the global village,bilingual education has become a hot issue in China.This article generally outlines the picture of bilingual education in the world.Then,it describes the development of bilingualism under Chinese contexts.Above all,the models of the bilingual education have been explicitly introduced to build up the basis for further investigation.Besides,the two main periods of the bilingual education in China have been described based on the empirical literature.In the end,the influential factors of the development of bilingual education have been discussed from five main perspectives:economic,social,educational,cultural and political framework.However,there is a lack of documentary resources and experimental materials for the scaffolding of bilingual education in China,which requires further investigation.展开更多
English is more widely used in Hong Kong than China's Mainland. The introduction, escalation and declination of English in Hong Kong are examined. Relevant reasons are explored to account for the gradual change of...English is more widely used in Hong Kong than China's Mainland. The introduction, escalation and declination of English in Hong Kong are examined. Relevant reasons are explored to account for the gradual change of language use. Afterwards, appropriate recom mendations are provided to elevate the status of English as globalization requires communication barriers across diverse cultures to be lifted.展开更多
With global integration going deeper,bilingualism has become a more social issue than a purely linguistic phenomenon.Over seas scholars have been studying in this field for a long time while in China,studies regarding...With global integration going deeper,bilingualism has become a more social issue than a purely linguistic phenomenon.Over seas scholars have been studying in this field for a long time while in China,studies regarding bilingualism are still in its early stages.This pa per provides a historic review on the definition,categorization as well as its cognitive functions.Although it is still a question whether bilin gualism is an advantage or disadvantage to human beings' especially children's cognitive ability,this paper has concluded that early studies showed more negative results while recent research has shifted to a more positive attitude.展开更多
This article explores four important factors in raising a bilingual child based on the book A Parents’and Teachers’Guide to Bilingualism written by Collin Baker.Some suggestions for parents are also provided in the ...This article explores four important factors in raising a bilingual child based on the book A Parents’and Teachers’Guide to Bilingualism written by Collin Baker.Some suggestions for parents are also provided in the second part of the article.It is hoped that the discussion helps parents to clear certain doubts about bilingualism and serves as an introduction as well as guidance for families that intend to or are trying to raise a bilingual child.展开更多
Despite a hot and sensitive topic in China,the practice and education of bilingualism has been misunderstood in some areas because people have little sense of it.This paper is to differentiate the diglossia and the bi...Despite a hot and sensitive topic in China,the practice and education of bilingualism has been misunderstood in some areas because people have little sense of it.This paper is to differentiate the diglossia and the bilingualism to make it clear that it is important and necessary to put into practice the bilingualism and bilingual education in parts of China.展开更多
Objective:To investigate the neural electrophysiologieal activity underlying Chinese and Eng- lish Stroop tasks for Chinese English bilinguals.Methods:Event-related potentials(ERPs)were recorded in 14 Chinese bilingua...Objective:To investigate the neural electrophysiologieal activity underlying Chinese and Eng- lish Stroop tasks for Chinese English bilinguals.Methods:Event-related potentials(ERPs)were recorded in 14 Chinese bilinguals with a moderate command of English when they performed the Stroop task pre- sented in English words and Chinese characters,respectively.Results:In Chinese task version,it was found an increased positivity over bilateral front-polar regions on incongruent trials compared with congru- ent trials,followed by an increased negativity over fronto-central region and an increased positivity over occipital region.While in English task version,only the increased negativity was observed over fronto-cen- tral region,but with reduced amplitude and anterior distribution.Conclusion:This increased negativity was proposed as an index of the resolution processes of conflicting information in the incongruent situa- tion.The increased positivity over occipital region on Chinese incongruent trials may indicate visually rechecking effect for Chinese character.展开更多
Case methods of teaching and learning are now popular worldwide in practice-oriented disciplines,especially in business educa tion programs.This reality-and-problem based methodology has attested to be more effective ...Case methods of teaching and learning are now popular worldwide in practice-oriented disciplines,especially in business educa tion programs.This reality-and-problem based methodology has attested to be more effective than the traditional inputting mode by link ing theory with practice so as to develop students' ability of creativity,analysis,leadership,communication,problem-solving and the like.However,it becomes more complicated in bilingual context due to the language difficulty.This paper,investigated under the environment of a bilingual(English-Chinese) MBA program in China through the research instruments of class observation,interview and question naire,tries to explore the perceptions of seven case leaders(professors) and their students on the case-based pedagogy in their bilingual courses,and meanwhile,analyze some features and challenges of the classroom practice of cases among these teachers and their English L2 Chinese students.展开更多
The present study is based on an investigation conducted with 122 nursing undergraduates in Guilin Medical University on their use of metacognitive strategies in March,2010.Data,collected in the form of questionnaire ...The present study is based on an investigation conducted with 122 nursing undergraduates in Guilin Medical University on their use of metacognitive strategies in March,2010.Data,collected in the form of questionnaire and interviews,were analyzed.Results show that the strategies use is positively correlated with the degree of satisfaction for bilingual teaching and the expected proportion of English.展开更多
In bilingual teaching,the author of this paper found some problems appearing in Sino-English speaking communication,espe cially the problems of intercultural pragmatic failures.In this paper,the author puts forward so...In bilingual teaching,the author of this paper found some problems appearing in Sino-English speaking communication,espe cially the problems of intercultural pragmatic failures.In this paper,the author puts forward some proposals to avoid them by focusing on the intercultural pragmatic failures in both English communication and English teaching.展开更多
Some problems are found about bilingual teaching in the local universities and colleges through the research.This paper intends to solve the problems by analyzing the findings from the investigations done among the bi...Some problems are found about bilingual teaching in the local universities and colleges through the research.This paper intends to solve the problems by analyzing the findings from the investigations done among the bilingual teachers and students,who are now involved in bilingual teaching.And it also proposes a practical bilingual teaching model especially for universities and colleges.This will determine the quality of practicing bilingual teaching and will improve its efficiency.展开更多
The present study applies Dr.He Yuanjian's CMT(Conceptual Mapping Theory) to focus on the strategy use of translating Chinese folklore concepts in Hong Lou Meng(i.e.indigenous concepts related to etiquettes and cu...The present study applies Dr.He Yuanjian's CMT(Conceptual Mapping Theory) to focus on the strategy use of translating Chinese folklore concepts in Hong Lou Meng(i.e.indigenous concepts related to etiquettes and customs) by Yang Xianyi and his wife Gladys Yang on the observations of the translators'strategies and the distributional tendencies of translation strategies so as to testify CMT on empirical grounds.Whether it holds true that the preservation of the alien source concepts through translation depends on how successfully they are mapped into the target conceptual system leads to the attempts to study on the distributional tendency of translation strategies of translation tasks,especially,of translating folkloric concepts in this paper.As a result,the tentative outcome of the data observed supports that the concept-mediation theoretic approach to translation process seems able to account for how cognitive constraints affect the production of mapping the unshared concepts.展开更多
The article discusses several key points about the relations between bilingual business teaching and business English teaching. According to the present problems about two teaching, the author supplies severeal sugges...The article discusses several key points about the relations between bilingual business teaching and business English teaching. According to the present problems about two teaching, the author supplies severeal suggestions in order to arrange two teaching properly.展开更多
文摘This is a review about literature on the conditions of bilingual education.Three important parts will be included in this review:a simple description of something concerned about the chosen literature;its definitions,reasons for implementing bilingual education,contexts,models or types,aims and outcomes,tendency and shift of bilingual education and its studies ;four research questions and some related reasons.It is supposed to lay a basis for investigation on whether bilingual education (involving English and Chinese) can be carried out further in the current conditions of China.
文摘This paper introduces two kinds of conceptions of bilingualism existing in China. One is traditional bilingualism, and the other refers to using a foreign language-English as an instrument to teach specialist subjects, which is called modern bilingualism. Then the emphasis is put on the latter to analyze the current circumstances in China, and its own affective factors and difficulties confronting it have been taken into account.
文摘While the increasing development of modern information technology, the globalization is becoming an obvious feature on educational situations. Therefore, mastering some necessary bilingual competencies will present essential meaning for educators. In the case of language teachers who teaching in the ethnically plural countries, for instance, China, the United States, language teachers have to face to various difficulties on the process of teaching in the bilingual class. Currently, the advanced technology is gradually being applied into language teaching, and then provides a series of advantages on improving the quality of language teaching. Firstly, the essay will analyse the barriers which exist in the language class, which in the level of Chinese university. Secondly, it will systematically describe how ICT can help language teachers to solve difficulties on teaching and display diverse innovative technological tools of language teaching.
文摘Under the trend of globalization and international financial integration,Chinese scholars have argued that executing bilingual education in the major of finance is necessary to advance the comprehensive quality and competitive ability of college students.However,universities attempting to implement bilingual education are procrastinated with many obstacles.To resolve this issue,corrective measures are to be given in the aspects of textbook publishing,professor training and curriculum adjustments.
文摘The present problems of bilingual teaching in local colleges in west China and are analyzed,and the countermeasures also are presented.The aim is to carry out bilingual teaching well in local colleges in west China.
文摘The development of education in China has become increasingly international.Therefore,carrying out bilingual teach ing in Universities is of great significance to cultivating international talents.However,the current bilingual teaching in Universi ties of our country is not optimistic,facing many difficulties and challenges.In order to provide students with advanced interna tional and dynamic culture,educators should continue to explore research and analyze bilingual teaching rationally and work out effective measures.
文摘This essay discuses the feasibility of adopting strong bilingual education in some international schools in China. It will ex-plain the theory, pedagogical principles,benefits and assessment of CLIL pedagogy.
文摘It is acknowledged that bilingual educaiton,as a new way in teaching,has attracted much attention in China for several years.This language policy gains praises from supporters but also causes lots of controversies with its relevant limitations.The present paper provides a brief review of the broad historical development of bilingual education in China,analyzes the unsolved problems and offers some recommendations for bilingual education to make it develop more smoothly and successfully.
文摘Bilingual education has more than 50-years' history in the world.It has gained the attention from the world since 1960s in some western countries,such as the USA and Canada.With the growth of international business and the appearance of the global village,bilingual education has become a hot issue in China.This article generally outlines the picture of bilingual education in the world.Then,it describes the development of bilingualism under Chinese contexts.Above all,the models of the bilingual education have been explicitly introduced to build up the basis for further investigation.Besides,the two main periods of the bilingual education in China have been described based on the empirical literature.In the end,the influential factors of the development of bilingual education have been discussed from five main perspectives:economic,social,educational,cultural and political framework.However,there is a lack of documentary resources and experimental materials for the scaffolding of bilingual education in China,which requires further investigation.
文摘English is more widely used in Hong Kong than China's Mainland. The introduction, escalation and declination of English in Hong Kong are examined. Relevant reasons are explored to account for the gradual change of language use. Afterwards, appropriate recom mendations are provided to elevate the status of English as globalization requires communication barriers across diverse cultures to be lifted.
文摘With global integration going deeper,bilingualism has become a more social issue than a purely linguistic phenomenon.Over seas scholars have been studying in this field for a long time while in China,studies regarding bilingualism are still in its early stages.This pa per provides a historic review on the definition,categorization as well as its cognitive functions.Although it is still a question whether bilin gualism is an advantage or disadvantage to human beings' especially children's cognitive ability,this paper has concluded that early studies showed more negative results while recent research has shifted to a more positive attitude.
文摘This article explores four important factors in raising a bilingual child based on the book A Parents’and Teachers’Guide to Bilingualism written by Collin Baker.Some suggestions for parents are also provided in the second part of the article.It is hoped that the discussion helps parents to clear certain doubts about bilingualism and serves as an introduction as well as guidance for families that intend to or are trying to raise a bilingual child.
文摘Despite a hot and sensitive topic in China,the practice and education of bilingualism has been misunderstood in some areas because people have little sense of it.This paper is to differentiate the diglossia and the bilingualism to make it clear that it is important and necessary to put into practice the bilingualism and bilingual education in parts of China.
文摘Objective:To investigate the neural electrophysiologieal activity underlying Chinese and Eng- lish Stroop tasks for Chinese English bilinguals.Methods:Event-related potentials(ERPs)were recorded in 14 Chinese bilinguals with a moderate command of English when they performed the Stroop task pre- sented in English words and Chinese characters,respectively.Results:In Chinese task version,it was found an increased positivity over bilateral front-polar regions on incongruent trials compared with congru- ent trials,followed by an increased negativity over fronto-central region and an increased positivity over occipital region.While in English task version,only the increased negativity was observed over fronto-cen- tral region,but with reduced amplitude and anterior distribution.Conclusion:This increased negativity was proposed as an index of the resolution processes of conflicting information in the incongruent situa- tion.The increased positivity over occipital region on Chinese incongruent trials may indicate visually rechecking effect for Chinese character.
文摘Case methods of teaching and learning are now popular worldwide in practice-oriented disciplines,especially in business educa tion programs.This reality-and-problem based methodology has attested to be more effective than the traditional inputting mode by link ing theory with practice so as to develop students' ability of creativity,analysis,leadership,communication,problem-solving and the like.However,it becomes more complicated in bilingual context due to the language difficulty.This paper,investigated under the environment of a bilingual(English-Chinese) MBA program in China through the research instruments of class observation,interview and question naire,tries to explore the perceptions of seven case leaders(professors) and their students on the case-based pedagogy in their bilingual courses,and meanwhile,analyze some features and challenges of the classroom practice of cases among these teachers and their English L2 Chinese students.
文摘The present study is based on an investigation conducted with 122 nursing undergraduates in Guilin Medical University on their use of metacognitive strategies in March,2010.Data,collected in the form of questionnaire and interviews,were analyzed.Results show that the strategies use is positively correlated with the degree of satisfaction for bilingual teaching and the expected proportion of English.
文摘In bilingual teaching,the author of this paper found some problems appearing in Sino-English speaking communication,espe cially the problems of intercultural pragmatic failures.In this paper,the author puts forward some proposals to avoid them by focusing on the intercultural pragmatic failures in both English communication and English teaching.
文摘Some problems are found about bilingual teaching in the local universities and colleges through the research.This paper intends to solve the problems by analyzing the findings from the investigations done among the bilingual teachers and students,who are now involved in bilingual teaching.And it also proposes a practical bilingual teaching model especially for universities and colleges.This will determine the quality of practicing bilingual teaching and will improve its efficiency.
文摘The present study applies Dr.He Yuanjian's CMT(Conceptual Mapping Theory) to focus on the strategy use of translating Chinese folklore concepts in Hong Lou Meng(i.e.indigenous concepts related to etiquettes and customs) by Yang Xianyi and his wife Gladys Yang on the observations of the translators'strategies and the distributional tendencies of translation strategies so as to testify CMT on empirical grounds.Whether it holds true that the preservation of the alien source concepts through translation depends on how successfully they are mapped into the target conceptual system leads to the attempts to study on the distributional tendency of translation strategies of translation tasks,especially,of translating folkloric concepts in this paper.As a result,the tentative outcome of the data observed supports that the concept-mediation theoretic approach to translation process seems able to account for how cognitive constraints affect the production of mapping the unshared concepts.
文摘The article discusses several key points about the relations between bilingual business teaching and business English teaching. According to the present problems about two teaching, the author supplies severeal suggestions in order to arrange two teaching properly.
