Deepening EMI Bilingual Teaching Ability! Shih Chien University Sends Teachers to Queen's University Belfast for Training for Four Consecutive Years

To deepen the momentum of bilingual education, Shih Chien University has sent teachers to Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland for professional teacher training for four consecutive years, starting from the 110th academic year. This systematically strengthens the teachers' English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) teaching ability and continues to promote the integration of bilingual education with international standards.
This summer, three teachers—Assistant Professor Cheng Yi-chen from the Department of Business Administration at the Taipei campus, Associate Professor Hsu Yun-shu from the Department of Food and Beverage Management, and Lecturer Lin Yi-pin from the Department of International Business Management at the Kaohsiung campus—will travel to the UK in July for a 10-day intensive professional training. The curriculum covers practical applications such as EMI teaching concepts, classroom language use, cross-cultural communication, and the design of teaching activities to help teachers deepen their professional EMI teaching skills and optimize classroom interaction.
Through the "Bilingual Seed Teacher Overseas Training Program," Shih Chien University has sent a total of 11 teachers from various colleges to Queen's University Belfast for advanced studies over the past four years. After the training, these seed teachers have successively offered all-English or bilingual courses in their professional departments and in the field of general education. They have also transformed their learning into practical teaching results through on-campus experience sharing, teaching observations, and curriculum consultations, gradually disseminating it to the bilingual teaching community within the university and stimulating further teaching innovation and exchange.
Shih Chien University has been ranked for its "Internationalization" in the "Taiwan's Best Universities Ranking" by Global Views Magazine for nine consecutive years. Looking ahead, Shih Chien University will continue to integrate an action-research-oriented approach, encouraging teachers to apply new international teaching knowledge to the local context, develop a bilingual teaching model with the university's unique characteristics, create a bilingual education environment with both an international perspective and local responsiveness, and move steadily toward the national policy goal of a bilingual nation by 2030.