OnTeachingofBilingualJournalismEducationinChina.doc

Abstract
Bilingual journalism education (known as International Journalism Education) in China aims to train journalism professionals who can work in both English and Chinese media organizations. Having developed rapidly in the past decade, bilingual journalism education (BJE) programs are in a unique journalism education position in China by combining English-style journalistic practice and concepts with English learning. This paper first provides a review of the development of BJE in China, then explores the advantages and disadvantages of the BJE teaching model in China and offers the results of a case study of the BJE program at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), with focused discussions on students’ job orientation and overall course arrangement of the school’s BJE program. The paper also provides an analysis of the challenges that BJE programs face in China. In the end, an assessment is made of BJE development trends in China.
In the past decade, bilingual journalism education in China (known as International Journalism Education in China) has developed rapidly. The program, aimed at training future reporters and editors who command both English-language and journalistic skills and are able to work in both Chinese and English media institutions at home and abroad, enjoys a unique position in the contemporary journalism education in China.
This paper first provides a review of the development of BJE in China, then explores the advantages and disadvantages of the existing BJE teaching model of in China by referring to a case study of a BJE program at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), one of the pioneer universities in China in BJE since the 1980s, with focused discussions on students’ job orientation and overall course arrangement of its BJE program. Based on a case study, this paper also offers an analysis of the challenges BJE faces in China. Finally, an assessment is presented about the future trends of BJE in China in a Chinese environment.
Development of Bilingual Journalism Education (BJE) in China
BJE in China can be traced to the 1920s when Yanching University (now Beijing University) in Beijing, Fudan University and St. John’s University in Shanghai started U.S..-style journalism programs in which most courses were presen铁路工程论文网http://www.e- in English.
After 1949, BJE was terminated as universities in China abandoned the American journalism model and followed the Soviet model. In fact, BJE was not resumed in China until the early 1980s when China’s Academy of Social Science first started a graduate bilingual journalism program focusing on English news writing and editing and the Beijing Broadcasting Institute began a bilingual journalism program for undergraduates in its English Department.
However, it was only after 1983 that the BJE boom began in China when five more universities started bilingual journalism programs. The BJE programs (most of them known as International Journalism Programs) were initiated as dual-bachelor-degree programs, in which students received bachelor degrees as English majors and also BA degrees in international journalism after three years of extensive western-style journalistic training. Most English-language journalistic training was provided by journalism professors and me代写铁路工程论文http://www.e- practitioners (known as foreign experts) from the United States, Great Britain and Australia, who were either funded by such non-profit organizations as the Fulbright Foundation and the Ford Foundation or employed by Chinese universities. China’s English-language media institutions such as Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, China Daily and Radio China International also sent reporters and editors to these campuses, to recruit more qualified future staff memebers.