Canada Bilingual Education 加拿大双语教育.doc

Introduction Bilingual education is a term that is commonly used by the European education Council. It refers to the discipline of teaching a foreign language or a second language as a teaching medium to teach. In this education system, schools’ general courses are taught by foreign languages or students’ second language. Bilingual education was prevalent in the United States, Canada, Singapore and other countries. However, due to the different national conditions, the purposes of bilingual education in various countries also varied. In general, the modes of bilingual education can be divided into three dominant types; they are transitional bilingual education, maintenance bilingual education, immersion bilingual education. From which the Canadian immersion bilingual education is the most successful. The final goal of bilingual education is to acquire subjects’ knowledge and to improve their language skills. Students are encouraged to use a second language to communicate the subject contents with classmates and teachers in order to continuously improve their language skills and critical thinking ability. Many studies have shown that bilingual children generally have better sensitivity in language comprehension and tend to be more flexible in thinking mode than monolingual children. Since the early 1970s, the United States, Sweden, Australia, Finland, Spain, Singapore and other countries have begun a serious of bilingual education researches suit to their own national conditions, on the basis of Canadian successful bilingual education research achievements, the objective is to fully develop learners language learning potentials, to make their second language be used as good as their mother tongue, and to better adapt to the world’s diversified development. This paper is mainly focus on the historical background of Canada Bilingual Education. For searching this historical origin deeply and specifically, we have to trace back to the European colonial period. The pap