Abstract：Globalization has led to increases in different foreign language use in Arab countries. Because of that, Arab countries have created a multilingual education policy which adopted one foreign language as the main language and multiple foreign languages as supplemental languages. In addition, foreign languages are generally used as the medium of instruction for STEM courses. This policy aims at improving the national language capacity by focusing on the instrumental functions of foreign languages and the dominant function of mother tongue. Such endeavours succeeded in one way or another but failed to achieve part of the language policy goals since there is no unified planning work program done by a specific language institute. Therefore, the paper suggests that the Chinese foreign education policy should serve the Chinese language development and call for a specific language institute to well plan the whole language issues and practice it, so as to balance the relations between mother tongue instruction and foreign language education. Also, the paper advises to stress the instrumental value of Chinese language when promote its education in the Arab world so as to actively integrate itself into the multilingual and multicultural Arab countries.
廖 静. 阿拉伯国家外语教育政策：成效与问题[J]. 语言战略研究, 2021, 6(5): 49-59.
Liao Jing. Foreign Language Policy and Education in Arab Countries: Effects and Problems. , 2021, 6(5): 49-59.
