Abstract Bilingual education is an important problem in the whole the tide of globalization,more and more countries implement the policy ofbilingual education. No matter in monolingual or bilingual countries,there is essful bilingual bilingual education is a classic example. Australia is a multicultural and multilingual country and the official language is the same time,there are many minority languages,including Aboriginal languages and immigrant education munity languages have acquired a higher profile since the 1 Australia,the definition ofbilingual education is USed to refer to both education which uses and promotes two languages and education for language minority models of Australian bilingual education ale as follows:LOTE classes address a variety of students who range from fluent speakers of LOTE as their mother tongue to monolingual English-speaking programmes are mainly transitional or maintenance programmes for students from a non—English—speaking background,but there are some remarkable schools with(partial)immersion pragrammes which are for the whole school population. This dissertation studies the background,history and practice of Australia bilingual education,analyzes the achievements and the problems in the practice of Australian bilingual to the study results,our country should cultivate qualified bilingual teachers,set up a continuous bilingual educational system, ca/l'y out perfect evaluation method,and create a better bilingual environment. Key words: Australian bilingual education,bilingual programme,immersion programme TT 学位论文独创性声明本人郑重声明: 1、坚持以“求实、创新”的科学精神从事研究工作。 2、本论文是我个人在导师指导下进行的研究工作和取得的研究成果。 3、本论文中除引文外,所有实验、数据和有关材料均是真实的。 4、奉论文中除引文和致谢的内容外,不包含其他人或其它机构已经发表或撰写过的研究成果。 5、其他同志对本研究所做的贡献均已在论文中作了声明并表示了谢意。 作者签名: 日 期: 学位论文使用授权声明 本人完全了解南京师范大学有关保留、使用学位论文的规定,学校有权保留学位论文并向国家主管部门或其指定机构送交论文的电子版和纸质版;有权将学位论文用于非赢利目的的少量复制并