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Bilingual Teachers’ Assessments in Private Universities 　　（Oxbridge College, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650041, China） 　　Abstract. The purpose of this study is to investigate the assessment approaches of bilingual teachers in private universities in China. The current assessment method is firstly introduced and then analyzed. A questionnaire thereafter was used to see how bilingual teachers see or saw their professional practice through self-assessment. Most bilingual teachers hold that bilingual teachers’ assessment should be developed in a formative way that tends to help their professional development and, if provided with respectful and safe environment, they are keen to improve all their practice to higher level. Also, bilingual teachers’ assessment must be objective as possible and thus could not be taken as summative assessment at the same time. 　　Key words: bilingual teachers, formative assessment, summative assessment, professional development. 　　1 Introduction 　　Bilingual education (Chinese-English) has been implemented in China for nearly one decade to meet the ever-increasing requirements of either globalization or technology revolution, but we still lack of general ideas about how the bilingual education should be undertaken. Among issues related to this question, how to acquire competent bilingual teachers takes the priority. Thus what are the characteristics of competent bilingual teachers, what bilingual teachers are in need of and how to help improve their competencies in the process of professional development are typical questions we puzzle. One cannot help but ask whether, and to what extent, which approach is contributing to improvement in the quality of any individual teachers or to the quality of the workforce as a whole. 　　Thus what we need now is to think about the proper way to enhance bilingual teachers’ quality in a general way. Among many approaches that educators have researched, teachers’ assessmen