ELT World » total immersion Your local friendly TEFL blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 English villages in Taiwan /2007/12/english-villages-in-taiwan/ /2007/12/english-villages-in-taiwan/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:47:00 +0000 david /2007/12/english-villages-in-taiwan/ Taiwan’s first English language village has recently opened in Taiwan, where Taiwanese children go twice a week for English immersion classes.

English Village

The Happy English Village features themed classrooms: a bank, a hotel, an airport waiting room and a coffee bar amongst others, and attracts 120 students. It was the idea of a non-profit organisation called the King Car Education Foundation.

The idea came to General Director Morgan Sun after visiting similar immersion villages in Korea. Concerned about the relatively poor ranking of Taiwanese students on the IELTS exam, compared to Japanese, South Korean and Vietnamese students, he decided it was time for an immersion village in Taiwan.

He hopes that the emphasis on speaking with the volunteer foreign teachers at the village, will shift the emphasis away from rote-learning and exams in the Taiwanese education system, towards communicative learning through real-life experiences.

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