Study of the Best Models for Bilingual Education Development from the University Lecturers’ Viewpoint

The purpose of this study was to investigate bilingual strategies and determine the appropriate model for teaching bilingual students in Iran's educational system. The research method was a combined sequential-exploration type. The statistical population of the study consisted of two societies; first community of research resources (written) and the second community of two subsectors of university professors. In addition, the snippets and questionnaires were utulized.  Afterwards, the findings indicated that bilingual strategies were subordinated to three models: a) natural language learning (B); guided language learning; and (c) automaticaly acquisition. Observation of the rank of bilingual education models from the viewpoint of university’ professors showed that the content-based language teaching method, the growth method, and the multilingual approach had the highest rank, respectively. Accordingly, the following methods were ranked as   two-way method, maintenance method, prestige method, dipping method, transitional method and, finally the revitalization method. . Moreover, in comparison of the viewpoints from all the professors with considering their field of study, it was indicated that faculty members in the field of Science Education prefered two-way method.