Scientific Nature of American Language Education Policy: Concurrently on the Similar Results of Policies of Bilingual and Foreign Education Language

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Abstract: Scientific language education policy must accord with the law of children's language learning development and nation's core interest. Political needs should not override children's language development and deep research and wide proof made by language and education experts. This paper finds that there is a great demand for talents of key languages and foreign language resources have not been fully exploited, that over-emphasis on English teaching results in the absence of multi-language learning environment, and that cultivating language talents other than English has been overlooked because of political concern. Therefore, the federal government should strengthen utilization of minority languages and cultures and solve paradoxical problems in language education policy, and multilingual education policies can be different in approaches but equally satisfactory in result.

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ZHANG Guiju. Scientific Nature of American Language Education Policy: Concurrently on the Similar Results of Policies of Bilingual and Foreign Education Language[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2013, 13(05): 38-42.

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