TESOL: Pedagogy in Taiwan

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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2006/08/20/2003323973/print

Native English speaking EFL instructors in universities meet many students who appear emotionally and academically unprepared for autonomous, cooperative and communicative learning. Many of these students prefer a teacher-centered, lecture-oriented and text-based pedagogy in which the teacher lectures and covers a blackboard with facts and information for students to record and then repeat in examinations. As a result, the motivation to use English communicatively is quite low among many students.

This is a great article on the inadequacies of the teaching environment in Taiwan's school system... Well worth reading. It makes one wonder what the system needs to do to change this... It also means language centers have a larger role in the education of the country's young people.

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Kenneth