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According to Chang, competence in English language has become a crucial determinant for access to higher education and well-paid employment, and China’s educational policy has been adjusted to embed English in the curriculum so as to honor the rise of global English. Actually, as Cummins states, English is the language for higher order thinking and conceptualization deemed necessary for academic success in that language. In fact, Chinese immersion schools have been growing in popularity in USA (Minnesota, for instance) over the past decade. However, the situation is different in China, as there is a shortage of bilingual professionals. As Hu claims, teachers both conversant in two languages and specialized in their subject are prerequisites to facilitate knowledge transfer in the classroom, and there are not many of those in China.