1. Language Development and Assessment Program
The Language Development and Assessment Program is mainly in charge of designing the freshman English curricula but also offers a variety of English courses for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Due to the increasing importance of acquiring certificates for a job application, the main mission of this program is to help students acquire an English proficiency certificate before graduation.
Holding foreign language competitions
The program also arranges intra and inter-college foreign language competitions every year in order to promote students’ motivation and enhance their foreign language proficiency.
University-industry Cooperation
The program conducts language certificate tests for both YunTech students and people outside the university. The TOEIC Test is administered by cooperating with the Educational Testing Services (ETS) and Test of Chinese Proficiency by cooperating with Steering Committee for the Test of Proficiency-Huayu.
2. Language Extension Program
The Language Extension Program arranges English test preparation courses for
students and faculty members to improve their chances of obtaining the desired
proficiency and hopefully becoming more competitive in their careers. The
courses include TOEIC, TOEFL and GEPT, and classes in general are arranged
according to levels.
Moreover, the language extension program designs several foreign language
learning courses such as English, Japanese, German, Spanish and so on.
Students in these classes can learn the target languages and broaden their
global and cross-cultural understanding simultaneously.
Translation Service
The program provides translation services between Chinese to English/English to Chinese and Chinese to Japanese/Japanese to Chinese.
3. Chinese as a Foreign Language Program
Chinese Language Learning Courses
The Language Center assists international students at YunTech and residents
near this area in learning Mandarin Chinese. The Chinese courses are divided
into 3 levels. They are Basic Chinese, Beginning Chinese and Intermediate
Chinese. The sizes of classes vary from small classes as in one-on-one
tutoring to large classes involving dozens of students in one class. Class
schedules are tailored according to the learning progress of students, thus
allowing them to learn Chinese better. The aim of this course is to provide a
comfortable environment for learning Chinese with friends all over the world.
Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language Course
In order to help teachers obtain the Certification Exam for Teaching Chinese
as a Second/Foreign Language held by the Ministry of Education, the program
provides a test preparation course which focuses on both theory and
practice. From attending the class, prospective teachers acquire plenty
resources for passing the certification exam and also feel better prepared to
teach Chinese classes.
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