Developing Bilingual Curriculum to Help Chinese Mainland’s Students to Get Ready to Become Intercultural Citizens

Abstract

The communications between countries and nations are not only based on the economics in this modern globalised world and bilingual curriculum is a breakthrough and gateway to lead Chinese people to fit it. China began to pay attention to intercultural competence in 1980s and still on its way to seek for why, what, and how to develop bilingual curriculum at schools. Based on the intercultural aspects, this paper discussed the importance of developing bilingual curriculum in Chinese mainland’s schools as well as the terms of “citizenship education†and the “bilingual curriculumâ€, moreover, the challenges and the possible hypothetical solutions are also included.