Summary of Achievements in Implementing the EMI Promotion Project in the 2022 Academic Year at Chung Hua University

I. Characteristics of the Bilingual Program Development

Chung Hua University (CHU) is positioned as a university with the twin orientations of "high quality teaching" and "industry-academia linkage". To strengthen its characteristic of high quality teaching, CHU enhances students' English proficiency through the Ministry of Education's BEST program and promotes English as a medium of instruction (EMI) for specialized courses, comprehensively elevating students' "international competitiveness".

In terms of implementing English-medium instruction, CHU began the systematic planning of students' English learning in the 2019 academic year. For freshman English, English is taught in levels based on students' English proficiency. For Sophomore English, English instruction focuses on discipline-specific courses tailored to each college. Moreover, various departments offer English courses for juniors and seniors to select as electives. Starting in the 2021 academic year, each college has been encouraged to offer EMI courses for sophomores, juniors, and first year graduate students. CHU’s main achievements in the 2022 academic year are as follows:

1. The percentage of English courses adopting full English-medium instruction is 25.93% (target: 20%)
2. The percentage of sophomores and first year graduate students taking 1 EMI course is 7.88% (target: 3%)
3. The number of EMI courses offered is 62 (target: 16 courses)
4. In cooperation with the British Council (BC), an EMI Center has established in College of Tourism at CHU. This is intended to encourage more teachers to teach in English and jointly cultivate EMI teaching ability in CHU classrooms.
5. CHU has established its in-service teacher growth community "CERT PT" for EMI promotion. EMI workshops are held, inviting external experts and scholars to share their EMI teaching strategies and educational technology applications. A total of 49 teachers across the CHU campus have jointly participated to improve their EMI teaching skills and this workshop has encouraged more teachers to be willing to teach in English.

II. Highlights of Achievements 

Highlight 1: Innovative Teaching in Levelled Freshman English

CHU is the first in the country to provide its freshmen with an innovative model for learning English; students are divided based on their English grades at admission or our placement test into advanced and practical levels.

• The advanced level is anchored on English writing instruction, utilizing big data analysis to evaluate strengths and weaknesses in student writing and provide suggestions for improvement. In the 2022 academic year, the percentage of students at the advanced level showing improvement from pre- to post-test was 66.54% (target: 50%). This shows students' English writing ability improved remarkably under this model. Overall satisfaction with English writing instruction was 89.26 out of 100 points, indicating students recognize the effectiveness of this writing pedagogy.
• The practical level aims to boost English speaking ability through virtual reality headset simulated interactive learning scenarios. In 2022, the percentage of students at the practical level demonstrating oral improvement was 64.57% (target: 50%). This indicates students' English speaking ability improved markedly with this model. Overall satisfaction with English speaking instruction reached 90.38 out of 100 points, showing students’ approval of this oral pedagogy.
• The percentage of all freshmen showing pre- to post-test improvement on the reading-listening exam was 69.04% (target: 50%). Overall satisfaction with English reading and listening instruction was 89.82 out of 100points, indicating broad student endorsement of this pedagogical approach for these two skills.

Highlight 2: Sophomore English Teaching Organized by Colleges

To cultivate students' professional English vocabulary abilities, CHU divides sophomore English classes by colleges and designs professional English courses for the five colleges. The courses include Technology English for the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Hospitality English for the College of Tourism, Architecture and Design English Presentations for the College of Architecture, Business Management English for the College of Management, and Cross-Cultural Communication for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. In the 2021 academic year, the growth rate in professional vocabulary scores from pre-test to post-test across colleges was 55.26% (target: 50%). This shows that students made significant progress in professional English vocabulary under this model. Moreover, the overall learning satisfaction score for professional English was 88.53 (out of 100 points), indicating students recognize the effectiveness of this approach to professional English education.

Highlight 3: Encouraging Results for English Proficiency Certificate Incentive Program

To encourage students to meet the standards of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), CHU has set up an incentive program with monetary rewards for students who achieved CEFR B1 level or above on various English proficiency exams. From the 2019 to 2022 academic years, 108 students in CHU obtained B1 or above certificates, making up 2.9% of the total student population (the Ministry of Education target is 2%). This shows that the incentive program effectively improved students’ overall English proficiency to surpass the Ministry's goals after being implemented.

III. Established an EMI Center and Hosted EMI Teacher Training Workshops

To enhance CHU's EMI teaching capacities, the College of Tourism cooperated with British Council (BC) to establish a CHU’s EMI Center. In the 2022 academic year, EMI teaching experts from BC were invited to give teacher training workshops and discuss EMI teaching strategies, with 49 teachers participating in total. During the workshop, teachers had opportunities to practice their English teaching techniques they learned by doing demonstration teachings, laying a good foundation to improve their competencies in fully English-mediated instruction. Six teachers obtained professional EMI teacher certification from Trinity College London, while five teachers obtained advanced EMI teacher trainer certification. Please see photos below. 

IV. Achievement of Performance Indicators

Under the rigorous supervision and management mechanism, CHU fully achieved all the common and customized performance indicators for BEST project’s Generalized Enhancement Program in the 2022 Academic Year. The budget was also fully utilized with a 100% execution rate. The details of the funding implementation are shown in the table below.

註: 

1.本計畫適用學制為日間學制班別（專科部、二技及進修部無需列計）。

2.有關學生之部定績效指標係針對「本國學生」，學校可另針對陸港澳、外國學生設定自訂指標（選填、非強制）。

3.英語課採全英教學：

(1)2024年：至少20所大專校院英語課採全英授課比率達30%以上。

(2)2030年：至少40所大專校院英語課採全英授課比率達80%以上。

4.學生修讀全英語授課（EMI）課程情形：

(1)2024年：至少5%大二及碩一學生修習至少1門全英語授課（EMI）課程（大二指111學年度入學、碩一指112學年度入學）。

(2)2030年：至少10%大二及碩一學生，修習至少2門EMI課程（大二指117學年度入學、碩一指118學年度入學）。

5.占比定義：

(1)英語課採全英語教學比率：「%」係指採全英語教學之英語課占全校英語課總數百分比。

(2)大二及碩一學生修讀全英語授課(EMI)課程情形：「%」係指至少修讀1門EMI課程之大二及碩一學生人數，占全校大二及碩一總學生人數百分比。

中華大學111學年度EMI課程及英語課程比率_佐證資料