【Title】 A New Trend in Bilingual Education Policy——the Case of the United States,Australia and China

【Author】 ZHOU Qingsheng（Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Beijing; 100081）;

【keywords】 bilingual education; overt policy; covert policies; pluralism; monism; social transformation;

【Abstract】 The United States and Australia had bilingual or multilingual education policy,but there has been a monolingual trend since the past decade.The Bilingual Education Act was,in USA in 2002,abolished and the English Language Acquisition Act took its place.The Asian languages(Chinese,Indonesian,Japanese and Korean) project funding in Australia was called off in 2002,and the dominant position of English was re-emphasized.This paper tries to give a brief description of the change from the bilingual education poli...