Junior High School Mathematics Bilingual Education Practice And Research

Bilingual teaching is one of the demands the developing society makes on education. Educators abroad have been practicing bilingual teaching for years and it results in many effective teaching approaches, which are signified by Canada-style immersion and sheltered subject matter teaching. However, it is a fact that not all proposed approaches and methodologies work everywhere, due to the different nations' backgrounds and the diversity of the educational environment in particular. In China, Canada-style immersion is greatly being adopted at present because proof has been found that it well suits the China's educational situations and quite agrees with the laws of learning.Math teachers are enriching the laws of bilingual math teaching by practicing. In my opinion, the bilingual teaching in some sense is a process that Chinese is getting less important and at the same time English is gradually playing a key role. According to the characteristics of math teaching in middle-school period, the focus of the bilingual math teaching should be on the teaching of the basic concepts. We can divide the contents into different sections on the basis of the math knowledge system and reduce the difficulty so that the students' mastery will get easier and the regulation of knowledge will take place. What the teacher should really care while teaching is whether the students understand the nature of the math knowledge. Therefore, the emphasis about the language should be laid on vocabulary building and idea expressing instead of the grammatical accuracy. Math teachers can't force the students to express in English while dealing with some relatively difficult contents such as multiplication table and the processes of the concrete operations. As for the real-life-relating contents which unavoidably lead to a comparatively larger vocabulary, my suggestions are: 1. Select the types of the problems cautiously; 2.Properly reduce the difficulty (This doesn't mean avoid some topics.); 3. Cast typical examples to have the students grasp the whole category. The key point of the bilingual math teaching is the students canrelate the English signs to the math knowledge during the information coding process so that a new knowledge structure is being built. Bilingual teaching is not a language focused teaching. Here English is no more than a media and an instructional tool. In essence, bilingual math teaching is a teaching on math through which the information carrier is two languages, and the goal of which is to master the math knowledge and to achieve the proficiency of two languages as well.Bilingual math teaching is carried out in China with difficulties such as the lack of the bilingual math text books, the teachers' unsatisfying attainments in both math and English and the students' poor learning environment, etc. The bilingual math teaching can't go on effectively unless the obstacles listed above are moved away.