Abstract: Bilingual education should not exclude language teaching, which really happens in bilingual teaching. It is necessary and feasible to apply bilingual teaching in international Chinese language education. Among the bilingual teaching models the most common ones are introduction model, transitional model and immersion model, which should be reasonably adopted with regard to courses and students of different foreign language levels. As for international Chinese language education, it is proposed that it should begin with the transitional bilingual teaching mode, and gradually transfer to the immersion mode according to the foreign language level of teachers and students, the curriculum content and the teaching materials

Key words: international Chinese language education, bilingual education, bilingual teaching model ,  ,  ,  ,  , [