About
Chieh-Fang Hu received her Ph.D. in Child Language Acquisition from the University of Kansas. She served as the president of the English Teaching and Research Association, Taiwan and as a co-chair of the panel review committee of National Science and Technology Council. She is now the advisor of the Advisory Board of Bilingual Education for Taipei City and a member of the standing committee of the advisory board of the National English Advisory Team.
Good or Bad? It's a Matter of Perspective and Interpretation
Bilingual education in Taiwan has been subject to various interpretations. The imagined possibility and the imagined impossibility coexist, albeit from very different perspectives. These include establishing a global identity versus compromising local identity, and benefiting flexibility in thinking versus incurring costs in L1. I will begin by addressing the perceived impossibility in terms of linguistic loading in subject content learning through English, and then explore the ways in which teachers effectively (or ineffectively) cope with these challenges.