Effectiveness and Problems of Bilingual Education in Higher Education Institute- A Survey

摘要

A questionnaire-based survey was conducted to get the current status of bilingual teaching in higher education institute. 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 from the students and high satisfaction rate to the course components.However, some problems related to bilingual teaching were also revealed such as poor English proficiency of the students themselves, lack of language environment and lack of good textbooks for bilingual education, etc. Recommendations were provided for references of bilingual education at university level in China.