2. The Taiwan Experience Education Program (TEEP) is
promoted and funded by the Taiwan Ministry of
Education (MOE) to enhance and enrich Taiwan’s
globalization strategies. TEEP is coordinated by the
Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology
(STUST), and co-organised and supported by the Tainan
City Government (TCG), to globalise Tainan as a bilingual
and internationalised city and facilitate STUST as a global
English speaking environment.
3. In July 2015, STUST collaborated with Western Sydney University’s
School of Education to recruit 20 Australian students majoring in
education or related fields to gain English teaching practice in
Tainan, Taiwan.
Each student was partnered with a STUST undergraduate
student majoring in Applied English to teach small groups of
junior high students during a 2-week English summer camp.
English language instruction included classroom learning
activities, as well as field trip visits to cultural and historic sites in
the Tainan region.
4. The cultural exchange program also included
Chinese language instruction, calligraphy, tea
making, and Zen meditation cultural activities.
The teaching placement culminated in a final
presentation and ceremony, whereby each
Australian student and their Taiwanese class gave an
English language presentation on one of the
significant sites and/or traditional Taiwanese cuisine,
as part of the collaborative teaching and learning
experience.
13. HTTP://TEEP.LC.STUST.EDU.TW/EN/NODE/TEEP6
• For more information, visit http://teep.lc.stust.edu.tw/en/node/teep6
• Have questions or want to register your interest? Contact:
Dr Son Truong s.truong@westernsydney.edu.au
