Looking beyond the ELT approach in China's higher education from the perspective of bilingual education: immersion, content-based instruction or something else?

• Ping Wang ^[1]
  1. [1] Jiaxing University

     Jiaxing University

     China

     
• Localización: International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism, ISSN 1367-0050, Vol. 20, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 102-114
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article starts with definitions of bilingualism with a focus on the analysis of bilingual competence. Then the aims and types of bilingual education in developing bilingual competence are introduced with focus on analyses of immersion and content-based instruction. Subsequently, the contextual settings of the study are briefly presented. Finally, the study suggests that modifications must be made to integrate some concepts and features of content-based instruction with those of immersion to meet the needs of English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching for non-English majors in China's higher education. The article concludes with the recommendation that a composite EFL teaching approach should be implemented in China's EFL teaching in higher education.