Abstract: The thesis deals with the heated topic of bilingual education. It presents a brief introduction of bilingual education, analyzes the reasons and background of its first adoption in some universities and its initial experiments in some primary and middle schools in China, and discloses some phenomena of pseudo-bilingual education at present. The thesis further discusses the obstacles in carrying out bilingual education in China’s junior middle schools and based on the national conditions and the reality of China, explains the possible damages which might be caused by the blind expansion of bilingual education. The thesis finally draws the conclusion that bilingual education should not be expanded in China’s junior middle schools.
Key words: bilingual education; infeasibility; junior middle schools
摘要：本文着手于双语教学这一热点话题，简单介绍了双语教学，分析了其在我国部分高校首先实行继而部分中小学也开始试验的原因及背景，列举了目前存在的一些伪双语教学现象。文章进一步讨论了我国初中实行双语教学的诸多困难并结合我国国情和实际情况阐述了在我国初中盲目推行双语教学可能产生的危害，最终得出我国初中不适宜推广双语教学的研究结论。
关键词：双语教学；不可行性；初中
As is discussed, in China’s education field there still exists a few misunderstandings about bilingual education and most China’s junior middle schools don’t possess necessary and sufficient conditions, such as competent teachers, appropriate teaching materials and students with certain level of English, to adopt bilingual education. Instead, blind expansion of bilingual education will do damages to junior middle school students’ acquisition of the mother tongue, their subject learning and in a wider sense, do harm to the whole education environment. Therefore, it is infeasible for China to expand bilingual education in junior middle schools.
