Bilingual Education Learning to Engage in Academic Activities

Abstract

The purposes of the research are the following reasons: The competition of pursuing further education; English lessons were given in junior high schools in the past, but has gradually progressed to the situation where elementary students have to study English as it has become an important subject for examination, so it is natural that bilingualism exists in the area. Research method the researcher conducted interviews and recordings under the consent of teachers and parents; the researcher compiled a semi-structured interview outline based on literature reviews and research purposes. Cross comparison was carried out on the result data and other relevant documents were referred to for conducting triangulation of sources. The researcher found that the objective of bilingual education was for the students to become balanced bilinguals, i.e. being able to understand school courses taught in two languages and use the two languages to engage in academic activities.