Environmental education curriculum in a bilingual education school in China.

From: The Social Studies | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Li, Ling | Copyright information

Bilingual programs originated in Canada in 1960s (Johnson and Swain 1997) and successfully spread throughout North America. In 1995 we started to apply similar programs to schools on mainland China. We worked with languages that are very different from each other.

By the mid-1960s, it had become apparent to the anglophone population of the Canadian province of Quebec that economic survival would require high levels of proficiency in French. Although many students had stu...

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