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A Survey on Bilingual Teaching in Higher Education Institute in the Northeast of China

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: A questionnaire-based survey was conducted to get the current status of bilingual teaching in higher education institute in the northeast of China.Survey was carried out among three groups of students: students from engineering related departments (Group 1), students from science related departments (Group 2), and students from arts related departments (Group 3).Results showed some positive aspects of bilingual teaching, such as high enthusiasm to bilingual teaching and high satisfaction rate to the course components.However, some problems related to bilingual teaching were also revealed such as relative poor English proficiency of students, lack of language environment and lack of good textbooks for bilingual education.Recommendations were provided with respect to bilingual teaching at university level in the northeast of China.

Source: Journal of Language Teaching and Research

DOI: 10.4304/jltr.1.4.353-357

Authors: Yaoxiang Li, Lihai Wang

Institution: Northeast Forestry University

Language: English

Topic: Second Language Learning and Teaching

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Northeast Forestry University