Canada is one of the countries with the most developed bilingual education in the world,while China starts bilingual education late.Such program greatly takes the advantage of critical period hypothesis and reveals it...Canada is one of the countries with the most developed bilingual education in the world,while China starts bilingual education late.Such program greatly takes the advantage of critical period hypothesis and reveals its effectiveness.Learning from the advanced experience from Canada,this study investigated problems of bilingual education in Chinese kindergartens and offered suggestions correspondingly.Only when there are qualified and professional preschool teachers,suitable teaching materials,specific teaching objectives and methods,cooperation between parents and teachers,can the bilingual immersion education in Chinese kindergartens be fully developed.展开更多
This paper investigates the views of immersion teachers in Hong Kong and Xi’an towards the immersion curriculum they are teaching.Teachers are important stakeholders in any curriculum implementation and their views a...This paper investigates the views of immersion teachers in Hong Kong and Xi’an towards the immersion curriculum they are teaching.Teachers are important stakeholders in any curriculum implementation and their views are significant in both evaluating progress and determining future directions.The teachers’views were gathered from questionnaires and interviews.Topics include their understanding of the objectives of immersion education,their preparedness for their roles as immersion teachers,the main challenges in immersion teaching they identify and the support they receive from their schools.The responses are discussed to identify areas of concern which may be future priorities for professional development.展开更多
文摘Canada is one of the countries with the most developed bilingual education in the world,while China starts bilingual education late.Such program greatly takes the advantage of critical period hypothesis and reveals its effectiveness.Learning from the advanced experience from Canada,this study investigated problems of bilingual education in Chinese kindergartens and offered suggestions correspondingly.Only when there are qualified and professional preschool teachers,suitable teaching materials,specific teaching objectives and methods,cooperation between parents and teachers,can the bilingual immersion education in Chinese kindergartens be fully developed.
文摘This paper investigates the views of immersion teachers in Hong Kong and Xi’an towards the immersion curriculum they are teaching.Teachers are important stakeholders in any curriculum implementation and their views are significant in both evaluating progress and determining future directions.The teachers’views were gathered from questionnaires and interviews.Topics include their understanding of the objectives of immersion education,their preparedness for their roles as immersion teachers,the main challenges in immersion teaching they identify and the support they receive from their schools.The responses are discussed to identify areas of concern which may be future priorities for professional development.
