| The 21st century is the era congested with information, tour and global economic integration. As a member of WTO, we ask for more talented persons to meet the challenges of economic globalization and science and technology revolution. To suit the needs of the modern society and win the international competition, bilingual teaching has already mushroomed nationwide and the condition of this teaching form has become an important index when evaluating a school. By well using bilingual approach, we could divert education notion, yet this also puts forward a higher requirement to the teaching, teachers and students in the meantime.The Chengde Tourism Vocational College is an important professional school in HeBei which puts up cultivating tour guides, especially English ones, as its feature. The tour guide major stands very high in the school scale, lots of outstanding cicerones well up annually. Ability training is a must in vocational schooling, in order to make our teaching betterly follow the market necessity, the student's technique and employment abilities should be listed at the top position according to the characteristics of professional education. As the sub-course of tourist college, tour geography also goes after the trend of cultivating the student's practical skills for their future careers. So I have been carrying out the reform of the bilingual teaching to that course.The paper takes bilingual teaching as the main research object, starts from the concept of bilingualism and bilingual teaching, develops thoroughly its mode and method world-widely in this field. With my personal experience, I have brought forward the current problems existed in our country's bilingual teaching. Through the survey of the English tour guides graduated in 2005 and 2006, I have further pointed out the indispensable call to set up this bilingual way of teaching. |
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