Promoting English in Taiwan

choi

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(1) Mark MacKinnnon, Learning on a jet plane: Taiwanese find a vehicle for global success. Globe and Mail (Toronto), Nov. 7, 2009.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/learning-on-a-jet-plane-taiwanese-find-a-vehicle-for-global-success/article1355211/
(English inversion at English Villages)

(2) Taiwan president presses for more English in college. AFP, Nov. 8, 2009.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091108/lf_afp/lifestyletaiwanlanguageenglish_20091108233917
(Ma: more college courses should be taught entirely in English. "Just over half of the 70 colleges and universities on the island ran over 9,000 English-medium courses last year")

My comment: That statistics are not bad, considering in 1980s when only English courses were conducted entirely in English.


------------Separately
(1)Deborah Kuo, Finnish missionary pays nostalgic visit to Taiwan. Central News Agency, Nov. 8, 2009.
http://english.cna.com.tw/ReadNews/Detail.aspx?pSearchDate=&pNewsID=200911080006&pType1=JD&pType0=xJDLNHH&pTypeSel=0

Quote:

"[Matika] Marjatta recalled that in her first year in Taiwan she was strongly tempted to give up and go home mainly because of the language barrier. After surmounting that hurdle by quickly picking up the Taiwanese dialect and some aboriginal languages, she stopped thinking about leaving and remained in Pingtung for 41 consecutive years, she said.

"However, Marjatta said, she disappointed a number of people who tried to match her with several Pingtung men. 'My short temper made me a bad candidate for marriage to any Taiwanese man,' Marjatta said with a smile.

(2) Taiwanese temptations. The Star, Nov. 6, 2009.
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/11/7/lifeliving/5044699&sec=lifeliving

Note:
(a) The Star (Malaysia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(Malaysia)
(the largest English-language newspaper in Malaysia; owned by Malaysian Chinese Association, the second-largest party in the ruling Barisan Nasional alliance)

(b) Zhen Shan Mei restaurant 真善美
(c) Three Cup Chicken 三杯雞 (a Taiwanese dish)
(d) I have no idea what Hefeng is.

(3) 郑念花絮. VOA Chinese, Nov. 8, 2009.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/NIEN-CHENG-20091108-69525897.html




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choi

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I am sorry. "English inversion" in my original posting (the last line of the attachment below) should be "English immersion."

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(1) Mark MacKinnnon, Learning on a jet plane: Taiwanese find a vehicle for global success. Globe and Mail (Toronto), Nov. 7, 2009.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/learning-on-a-jet-plane-taiwanese-find-a-vehicle-for-global-success/article1355211/
(English inversion at English Villages)
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【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: (1) Mark MacKinnnon, Learning on a jet plane: Taiwanese find a vehicle for global success. Globe and Mail (Toronto), Nov. 7, 2009.
: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/learning-on-a-jet-plane-taiwanese-find-a-vehicle-for-global-success/article1355211/
: (English inversion at English Villages)
: (以下引言省略...)

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