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Bilingual teaching is an important attempt to teaching reform of China’s higher education in the context of economic globalization, and also an important goal for culturing international and innovative talents. Under such new situation, colleges shall further enhance the awareness about the necessity of bilingual teaching on undergraduate students, make clear the nature, purpose and mission of bilingual teaching, strengthen and improve the systematic study of bilingual teaching mode, and effectively improve the quality and talent training of bilingual teaching, so that bilingual teaching can be continuously explore and improved during the practice of course formation. Bilingual teaching is an important attempt to teaching reform of China’s colleges in the context of economic globalization. With the rapid development of economic globalization, China's higher education has been gradually shifting from elite education to mass education, and also to international trend. The culturing of international and innovative talents has become one important goal of higher education, because it may affect national prosperity and national cultural renaissance. Bilingual education as a means of teaching the micro level, and to achieve this goal are closely linked. Bilingual teaching, as a micro teaching, has a direct link to this goal. I. Bilingual teaching for college undergraduates has made substantial achievements Ministry of Education (MOE) pays much attention on bilingual teaching in colleges and universities. In 2001 the Ministry of Education issued "Opinions on Strengthening Undergraduate Education to Improve the Quality of Teaching", which proposes the requirement that "undergraduate education shall create conditions for teaching open courses and specialized courses in English and other foreign languages". In 2002 for the first time, the Ministry of Education defined bilingual education as: foreign language teaching materials are used and lessons taken in foreign language accounts for more than 50% of the whole course hours. In 2007 the Ministry of Education issued the "Opinions on Further Deepening the Reform of Undergraduate Teaching to Comprehensively Improve the Quality of Teaching", which also made it clear on "promoting bilingual teaching courses and exploring effective teaching methods and modes, to effectively improve college students' English level and ability to directly use English in scientific research". In recent years, to implement the MOE' deployment and comments regarding the bilingual teaching in colleges, bilingual teaching has been generally carried out in colleges all over the country, and exploration about bilingual teaching has been conducted in many disciplines, particularly the teaching for college undergraduates, gaining some teaching experience and some substantial results. We can see the following advantages of bilingual teaching: (1) Bilingual teaching improves students' professional skills by helping them learn technical terms of their own fields and improve their ability to retrieve and read professional articles. (2) Bilingual teaching creates an English atmosphere for students. (3) Bilingual 3rd International Conference on Science and Social Research (ICSSR 2014) © 2014. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 118 teaching raises students' overall quality by helping them broaden their international perspective and establish a sense of international exchange. (4) A team of bilingual teachers with a master's degree or overseas experience is initially formed, laying the foundation for bilingual teaching of colleges. II. Main problems for current bilingual teaching mode Although bilingual teaching has been carried out in colleges since nearly a decade ago, there are still some practical problems, mainly in the following areas: 1. Students have poor master of English, especially in listening and speaking ability. Students find it difficult to understand and exchange with teachers during the class, leading to low learning efficiency and heavy burden. Students all think their incompetence in bilingual courses as the biggest problem, but the higher the grade they are, the less restriction from English they will face. 2. Curriculum system is not perfect. Relatively simple types of bilingual teaching courses and nonsystematic bilingual teaching are great barriers to raise students' professional and cultural quality in the talent culturing process. Meanwhile, the lack of college application and practice courses is not conducive to the training of compound talents, unable to meet the requirements for personnel under the trend of economic globalization. 3. Teaching methods are not advanced enough. Traditional teaching and testing methods constrain bilingual teaching, and hinder students to take the initiative. Students' course grade is still tested by exam papers, and as an inevitable result, teachers simply teach by reading through teaching material, while students have to learn by rote, lack of opportunities to use their brains and innovation ability. 4. The lack of bilingual teaching faculty is a great problem in bilingual teaching. Such problem is caused by severe requirements for teachers by bilingual courses, including pronunciation, fluency, expertise level, etc., which are not met by the current bilingual teachers. 5. Unified teaching standards, specifications and specific requirements have not been formed. Also, there are not enough systematic research and standard system for teaching evaluation, curriculum assessment and monitoring about bilingual teaching. III. Problems to be solved for further strengthening research on bilingual teaching modes Bilingual teaching is an important task of higher education when cultivating innovative talents for the future world. As a large country of education, China currently has more than 1,100 undergraduate colleges. Therefore, the research on bilingual teaching for university undergraduates will help promote systematic research on bilingual teaching mode of nationwide universities, so that bilingual teaching can be continuously explored and improved in practice of curriculum construction. (a) Raise the understanding about necessity of bilingual teaching English is the most important international language, but many of our students after ten years of learning English cannot read books English, even not hear or speak English, difficult to directly communicate with foreigners. Therefore, the most direct and most important starting point of bilingual teaching is to improve students' English proficiency and develop their potential in the professional field, thus train talents with international competitiveness and vision. In China, the meaning of bilingual teaching is generally known that teachers give classes by mainly using a foreign language (currently mostly English) rather than Chinese. It requires teachers to teach with correct and fluent English, but not to absolutely exclude the Chinese to avoid students' thinking lag due to language barriers. (b) Make clear the nature, purpose and mission of bilingual teaching Bilingual teaching is the basic lesson of a particular professional discipline in colleges. The purpose of the course: on the basis of the existing English level, students can be familiar with and master the common expressions of their own masters through reading relevant English literature. On the one hand, students shall raise their reading and translation capabilities, especially ability to read and translate English literature of their own masters correctly and quickly; On the other hand, students shall improve

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