聯合翻譯 引用自 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2014/09/23/2003600336
How difficult is it for university English departments to attract students? The results of a survey on college and university English-related departments nationwide showed that eight departments have closed down or stopped recruitment over the past eight years. Meanwhile, nine applied foreign languages or English departments transformed into tourism or some other department just to find a way out.
The Global Education Association in Taiwan (GEAT) held a forum on the afternoon of Sept. 12. The GEAT sent a survey to all English departments and received responses from 74 departments. About 31.5 percent of them admitted that they are facing the challenge of student shortage. According to Chen Chao-ming, the results show that English departments are no longer popular when senior high school students and their parents are choosing a university.
Chen is chief executive officer (CEO) of the association and a professor of English at Shih Chien University. He said that since the English proficiency of other majors is equally good or even better than that of English majors, the enrollment numbers for the prospects for English majors are extremely worrying, as are their employment prospects.
Chen said that English departments should be redefined and should no longer limit themselves to cultivating English teachers, secretaries or writers. With an advantage in English language, they should provide cross-cultural training and enhance students’ management knowledge and cross-disciplinary specialization. They should cooperate with industries under the major trend of “transnational management” in the future, so as to train students with cross-disciplinary skills and strong English ability.
聯合翻譯 引用自 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2014/09/23/2003600336
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