中国是世界上最大的外语教学大国。随着我国申奥成功和加入WTO, 英语教学的重要性被推到了一个历史性的高度,并成为全社会都关注的一个重要话题。为了突破外语教学中的难点,克服交际困难和普遍存在的“哑巴英语”,有条件的中小学已开展了双语教学实验。这种教学外语的思路无疑是正确的。 一、双语教学的厘定 双语教学源自双语现象(bilingualism)。双语现象指个人或某个特定的语言和社区使用两种语言的现 China is the largest foreign language teaching country in the world. With the success of China’s bid for the Olympics and its accession to the WTO, the importance of English teaching has been pushed to a historic height and it has become an important topic for the whole society. In order to break through the difficulties in foreign language teaching and overcome difficulties in communication and the prevalence of “dumb English”, conditional primary and secondary schools have conducted bilingual teaching experiments. The idea of ​​this kind of teaching foreign language is undoubtedly correct. I. Bilingual Teaching Determined Bilingual teaching stems from bilingualism (bilingualism). Bilingualism refers to the presence of individuals or a particular language and community using two languages