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Houston (CNS) -- As China grows, so does the number of Mandarin learners in U.S. schools, especially in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the Dallas Morning News reported on Wednesday.

The U.S. government has designated Mandarin as a "critical need" language and provides professional development programs for teachers to improve citizens' language abilities, said Marty Abbott, executive director of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

She estimated that as many as 100,000 students are now studying Mandarin in public and private schools throughout the whole nation.

More and more English-speaking people realize the necessity of learning Chinese, said Gu Mingdong, director of the Confucius Institute at UT Dallas.

According to the newest survey by the ACTFL, the number of Mandarin learners in grades seven to twelve in all U.S. public schools has grown to 60,000 from 20,000 in the past three years.

The Confucius Institute at UT Dallas has already opened Confucius lectures in 11 local public schools, attracting more than 700 students to learn Mandarin, Gu said.