A practice of bilingual teaching in a big-scale class: How we teach programming bilingually in a big class

This paper describes our practice of teaching Java Programming bilingually in the big-scale classes. A perspective is presented that helpfulness instead of success should be taken as the goal of teaching. Since the language skill is the precondition for the students´ academic achievements in the bilingual study, measurements are taken accordingly including setting up the study environment in English and having a new way of evaluation. The impeding factors specific for a big class are summarized and their solutions are elaborated. The data from the classes are analyzed to find the characteristic of students´ bilingual learning process in a big class. Finally the future works are suggested.