For many years, the examination-oriented English examination has become the ultimate goal for most students to learn English, which challenges the use of immersion English in China. On this basis, I will use Phillips and Ochs’ framework which focused on analyzing the important factors affecting the educational policy reference in each stage, and formed a framework for analyzing the process of educational policy transfer. Therefore, I will focus on the origin, aim and expectation of immersion education in China. And then use the framework of four stages of educational borrowing a model to describe immersion education in China. Immersion education should meet the challenge of globalization, take the road of internationalization, and at the same time localize the educational methods. 

Xiaoting Mai. Immersion Education in China. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2021) Vol. 3, Issue 4: 24-31. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2021.030405.

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