Taiwan has remained in the backdrop of my reading landscape since I was ten years old. I grew up in China reading essays, poetry, plays, choreography and novels by Yu Kwang-chung, Lin Chin-hsuan, Chu T’ien-wen,
Every smartphone, laptop, and artificial intelligence system depends on tiny semiconductor chips – many of which are manufactured in Taiwan. Yet during my two weeks in Taiwan as part of the
When I learned that I had been selected to participate in the Fulbright International Education Administrators (IEA) Program in Taiwan, I felt both excitement and a deep sense of responsibility. As a leader at a U.S. community college,.
During my time in Taiwan as part of the Fulbright International Education Administrators Program, I encountered a phrase etched into the windows on the 101st floor of Taipei 101: “Stay rooted but aim high.”
Nearly 35 years ago, a young man fresh out of college enrolled in a summer Mandarin course and bought a one-way ticket to Taipei, hoping to land a job teaching English.
感謝學術交流基金會提供的機會，讓我本學期能加入華語教師獎助金計畫，有機會輔導美籍碩士生提升華語能力並認識台灣文化。透過參與此計畫，也讓我獲得與教學經驗豐富、實力雄厚的華語教師們交流學習的機會，備感榮幸、收穫良多。
誠摯感謝 Fulbright 提供此次寶貴的教學機會，使我得以在跨文化的學習與教學環境中持續成長。能夠與多位優秀且經驗豐富的華語教師共事與交流，不僅拓展了我對華語教學的專業視野，也促使我在教學理念與實務層面皆獲得深刻的收穫，這段經驗對我而言意義深遠。
今年很榮幸能繼續參與 2025-2026 MEA 教學行列。感謝團隊的信任，本學期我帶領兩位學生進行教學。本次日誌將著重分享如何將「文化活動」轉化為語言學習的養分。
為專業華語學習者設計課程，對教師而言是一項充滿挑戰的任務，尤其當學習者已能流利應對日常溝通時，教學的重心必須從原先的語言學習，策略性地轉向滿足其專業領域需求。此轉變不僅是華語課堂教學方法的調整，
I arrived in New York as a Fulbright scholar with a suitcase full of notebooks and a naïve ambition: to decode the “secret sauce” behind this global cultural capital. I assumed there must be a formula—a replicable,
