A high school that emphasizes foreign language education in
China has introduced CBI into part of its curriculum.
TAt another high school in China, a U.S. teacher who had origi
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nally been hired as an English teacher was recently asked to
teach biology in addition to English. She was a replacement for
a local biology teacher who had been asked to teach biology in
the school’s newly introduced “bilingual program.” The students
and parents complained that the Chinese biology teacher had
insufficient proficiency in English to teach biology in English,
and the principal decided to ask a native English-speaker to
teach the class instead. The U.S. teacher was nervous: she was a
recent graduate from college with a psychology degree and had
no teaching experience, either in English or biolog