Teachers and principals were invited to give feedback on progress regarding the government’s goal of becoming a Mandarin-English bilingual nation by 2030. Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School English teacher Liu Ya-hsin, standing, speaks at a meeting on bilingualism and English teaching hosted by the New Power Party on Saturday. Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times“Students need an environment where the English they learn is used, or it just comes across as pretentious,” Taipei Municipal Zhong Zheng Senior High School principal Chiang Hui-chen (江惠真) said. Very few qualified bilingual teachers take on positions in Taipei, and schools lack bilingual curricula that fit the local education system, he said. Liu Ya-hsin (柳雅馨), an English teacher at Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, said there was a large consensus among those she asked in Taipei that the English-Mandarin bilingualism program is unpopular.

Source: Taipei Times November 22, 2021 12:13 UTC