A Model for a Bi-lingual Curriculum

There has been an increasing demand for multilingual professionals, in various fields including engineering, which in turn which in turn lead to the increased demand and resurgence in bilingual curricula and programs.Globalization have attributed to this resurgence, where there is an ever-increasing demand for 'mobile' workforce capable of communicating, both socially and professionally, with coworkers of different mother languages.The paper describes and assesses three models for multilingual curricula.The models are assessed based on satisfying the cultural and professional aspects of the language.A bilingual English/Arabic model was developed and implemented at Zayed University.The model is designed to keep away from the shortcomings in currently used models.