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Tunghai University-News--Taiwanese and Japanese university students experience Taiwan's diverse language education scene
Taiwanese and Japanese university students experience Taiwan's diverse language education scene
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- Date : 2019-03-19
Japanese students can earn credits for the course “Community Exchange between Taiwan and Japan”. It has been twelve years since the signing of the cooperation treaty with Japan's University of Human Environment. This year's theme is to explore the diversity of language education in Taiwan. The event was greatly assisted by the junior high and elementary school of Liujia in Tainan City. This February 11th to 16th, there were 40 participarnts students from Tunghai University, twenty from the University of Japan and six teachers from Taiwan and Japan.
In addition to watching the English learning of the students in the junior high school and the study of Mandarin in the continuation school, learning local language, the students of Taiwan universities also learned the diversity of language education in Taiwan through exchanges and interactions with the residents of Liujia. The interactive activities include making a Japanese menu for Vietnamese restaurants, performing a Japanese cartoon “Chibi Maruko-chan”in Taiwanese with junior high school students, reciting a poem of Li Bai in Taiwanese and Japanese, and cooking Japanese cuisine with seniors in the classroom , also introducing Japanese culture to junior high school students in English.
Although the event was only for a short week, the preparation time started from last year. Through the online communication platform, Taiwanese students used Japanese to discuss and exchange information with Japanese students. During the six-day activity, they did everything: eating, living, emotional exchanging for 24 hours every day. Through this course, students from Tunghai University have enhanced their Japanese language skills and learned to use the international volunteers in the Liujia Junior High School to create “Not just learn, use!”, an educational connotation of English environment.
