Facing the challenges of globalization, English is currently the most significant language used in international communication. How to build a bilingual environment based on policies to improve the competitiveness of talents and industries in Taiwan is the key element to connect to the international stage for Taiwan.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) focuses on the goal of strengthening students’ English proficiency in higher education in response to the blueprint of bilingual policy, prioritizing the establishment of the bedrock for students’ English learning, and providing knowledge- based lectures from different professional fields (including professional programs for economics, engineering, medicine, business, culture and etc.) by using English as a medium of instruction to assist universities and colleges in promoting “EMI”, so as to build a bilingual teaching and learning environment for universities and colleges. We hope to improve the English proficiency of students in higher education and the international competitiveness of universities in Taiwan.
The project aims to adopt focused development to nurture professional bilingual talents from professional fields, reinforcing the overall teaching abilities of teachers and English proficiency of students in universities and colleges through generalized enhancement, increasing teachers and their teaching materials through sharing and collaboration, and creating a bilingual environment to further realize the policies, and in turns to improve issues related to organization, teachers, and students faced by universities and colleges in implementation at present, achieving the prospect of a bilingual nation.