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
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
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
Chinese people constitute a significant minority in Britain, but less attention paid to Chinese origin children. With document collection, the situation of Chinese origin children's education and the effect of bil...Chinese people constitute a significant minority in Britain, but less attention paid to Chinese origin children. With document collection, the situation of Chinese origin children's education and the effect of bilingualism will be clarified. Bilingualism increase ethnic identity,and cultural adjustment, ethnic identity and language development are correlative for bilinguals.展开更多
Recent researches have shown bilingualism has an influence on cognition,both negative and positive.This essay aims to discuss the cognitive disadvantages and advantages bilingualism brings,by emphasizing how it affect...Recent researches have shown bilingualism has an influence on cognition,both negative and positive.This essay aims to discuss the cognitive disadvantages and advantages bilingualism brings,by emphasizing how it affect children’s cognitive devel opment.It will first briefly introduce the disadvantages such as a lower verbal fluency and vocabulary deficit,and then analyse the advantages on non-verbal cognition and attention controlling,a more sensitive metalinguistic awareness and a lower decline rate of cognitive processing.展开更多
The issue of bilingualism has been widely explored in the past decades,showing that there are multiple positive effects of"additive bilingualism".Such positive factors are closely linked with children’s cog...The issue of bilingualism has been widely explored in the past decades,showing that there are multiple positive effects of"additive bilingualism".Such positive factors are closely linked with children’s cognitive development and intelligence.This paper gives a detailed review on how bilingualism plays a role in children’s divergent thinking ability.Fully taking advantage of such positive effects in language education should be a significant part for bilingual education and foreign language programs.Thus,this paper further discusses the educational implications of these theoretic findings,suggesting that an additive bilingual environment should be cultivated through multiple ways of curriculum and program planning.展开更多
Bilingualism is a social phenomenon that individuals communicate with each other with two language systems.Bilingualism has some certain positive effects on the individual’s cognition development and language acquisi...Bilingualism is a social phenomenon that individuals communicate with each other with two language systems.Bilingualism has some certain positive effects on the individual’s cognition development and language acquisition process.Besides,bilingualism also promotes the globalization and is an essential characteristic of“cultured”.展开更多
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 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
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
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
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.
Bilingualism is becoming increasingly common because of more frequent immigration and the new teaching concept adopted by many schools.One becomes bilingual either by acquiring two languages at the same time in childh...Bilingualism is becoming increasingly common because of more frequent immigration and the new teaching concept adopted by many schools.One becomes bilingual either by acquiring two languages at the same time in childhood or by learning a second language sometime after acquiring their first language.To know more about bilingualism is of great importance,particularly to language teachers and learners.This article tries to analyze a bilingual's language development on the basis of existing researches by some great linguists and tries to find out how to realize the positive language transfer in English teaching and learning through the interaction between two languages.展开更多
This paper examines language use inside and out of classroom of Uyghur students from the middle schools for both Han and ethnic minorities in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. A total of 341 Uyghur students between 12 and 15 y...This paper examines language use inside and out of classroom of Uyghur students from the middle schools for both Han and ethnic minorities in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. A total of 341 Uyghur students between 12 and 15 years of age, attending 3 middle schools for both Han and ethnic minorities in Urumqi, responded to questionnaires requesting information about their language backgrounds, their use of language at school (inside and out of classroom) and in the wider community, their self-perceptions about their linguistic competence in Uyghur and in Chinese and their attitudes towards Uyghur, Chinese and towards bilingualism. The results, in general, demonstrated a positive attitude towards bilingualism, and there was a trend towards favoring the use of Chinese both inside and outside classroom. The implications of the findings for language policy and planning in education are discussed.展开更多
The influence of bilingualism and multilingualism on language learners has been studied and discussed by researchers for many years.In recent decades,research focus has been moved to the effects of second and third la...The influence of bilingualism and multilingualism on language learners has been studied and discussed by researchers for many years.In recent decades,research focus has been moved to the effects of second and third language acquisition processes on language learner’s brains,which tends to have implications for future language learning.The purpose of this paper is to investi⁃gate possible implications for language learners of the efficiency in language learning,language learning strategies,and language use from the second and third language acquisition process,which tends to assist them to learn another language in an efficient way.展开更多
The study concerns the individual bilingualism of students at a higher education level.The MIX phenomenon of single word is a process for them to master the language from the beginning to a higher level.However,the MI...The study concerns the individual bilingualism of students at a higher education level.The MIX phenomenon of single word is a process for them to master the language from the beginning to a higher level.However,the MIX should be aware that it is not the more MIX the better,rather the more“norm and complete”the better.展开更多
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Chinese people constitute a significant minority in Britain, but less attention paid to Chinese origin children. With document collection, the situation of Chinese origin children's education and the effect of bilingualism will be clarified. Bilingualism increase ethnic identity,and cultural adjustment, ethnic identity and language development are correlative for bilinguals.
文摘Recent researches have shown bilingualism has an influence on cognition,both negative and positive.This essay aims to discuss the cognitive disadvantages and advantages bilingualism brings,by emphasizing how it affect children’s cognitive devel opment.It will first briefly introduce the disadvantages such as a lower verbal fluency and vocabulary deficit,and then analyse the advantages on non-verbal cognition and attention controlling,a more sensitive metalinguistic awareness and a lower decline rate of cognitive processing.
文摘The issue of bilingualism has been widely explored in the past decades,showing that there are multiple positive effects of"additive bilingualism".Such positive factors are closely linked with children’s cognitive development and intelligence.This paper gives a detailed review on how bilingualism plays a role in children’s divergent thinking ability.Fully taking advantage of such positive effects in language education should be a significant part for bilingual education and foreign language programs.Thus,this paper further discusses the educational implications of these theoretic findings,suggesting that an additive bilingual environment should be cultivated through multiple ways of curriculum and program planning.
文摘Bilingualism is a social phenomenon that individuals communicate with each other with two language systems.Bilingualism has some certain positive effects on the individual’s cognition development and language acquisition process.Besides,bilingualism also promotes the globalization and is an essential characteristic of“cultured”.
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 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Bilingualism is becoming increasingly common because of more frequent immigration and the new teaching concept adopted by many schools.One becomes bilingual either by acquiring two languages at the same time in childhood or by learning a second language sometime after acquiring their first language.To know more about bilingualism is of great importance,particularly to language teachers and learners.This article tries to analyze a bilingual's language development on the basis of existing researches by some great linguists and tries to find out how to realize the positive language transfer in English teaching and learning through the interaction between two languages.
文摘This paper examines language use inside and out of classroom of Uyghur students from the middle schools for both Han and ethnic minorities in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. A total of 341 Uyghur students between 12 and 15 years of age, attending 3 middle schools for both Han and ethnic minorities in Urumqi, responded to questionnaires requesting information about their language backgrounds, their use of language at school (inside and out of classroom) and in the wider community, their self-perceptions about their linguistic competence in Uyghur and in Chinese and their attitudes towards Uyghur, Chinese and towards bilingualism. The results, in general, demonstrated a positive attitude towards bilingualism, and there was a trend towards favoring the use of Chinese both inside and outside classroom. The implications of the findings for language policy and planning in education are discussed.
文摘The influence of bilingualism and multilingualism on language learners has been studied and discussed by researchers for many years.In recent decades,research focus has been moved to the effects of second and third language acquisition processes on language learner’s brains,which tends to have implications for future language learning.The purpose of this paper is to investi⁃gate possible implications for language learners of the efficiency in language learning,language learning strategies,and language use from the second and third language acquisition process,which tends to assist them to learn another language in an efficient way.
文摘The study concerns the individual bilingualism of students at a higher education level.The MIX phenomenon of single word is a process for them to master the language from the beginning to a higher level.However,the MIX should be aware that it is not the more MIX the better,rather the more“norm and complete”the better.
