Studying On And Enlightment From The Development Of Bilingual Education In Singapore

Singapore is a typical country in carrying out bilingual education.In the process of putting bilingual education in practice, the government pushes a series of characteristic measures. For example, the matched streaming system; many official languages; training professional teachers in bilingual education etc.Even the government provides the necessary basic establishments and builds good language enviroment.All these help the bilingual education in Singapore develop rapidly. The following passage tries to take the actuality of the development of our bilingual education into consideration.The passage will systematically search on the historical and cultural background, the language policy, the statement and the problems present of Singapore's bilingual education at the point of educational history by the means of historical analysis, literature search, discription and statistics. Meanwhile at the point of historical and dialectical materialism this passage will analyze the windage in the development of bilingual education in Singapore, sum up and draw lessons from the experience of Singapore's bilingual education,so that we can find a new way that is more suitable to our reality of bilingual education to make our bilingual education develop on its pins.In the end, this passage comes up with our enlightments from Singapore's bilingual education: 1)set up the policies of bilingual education that are in tune with our circumstances; 2)link bilingual education in primary and middle school to that in university well; 3)improve teaching methods; 4)provide more oppotunity to train the teachers of bilingual education; 5)create good language enviroment for bilingual education, so and so.