In facing the trend of bilingual education, optimizing EMI teaching and enhancing students' English proficiency in training talents with English professional competence has become a vital issue. This forum focuses on practices and adaptive strategies of EMI and English language courses in higher education, emphasizing the optimization of bilingual education. We invite experts and scholars in Taiwan and worldwide to explore the hands-on aspects of EMI teaching and bilingual learning to familiarize teachers and students in higher education with pedagogical and acquisitional strategies when transitioning to the bilingual education setting.

Forum Information:
1. Theme: Optimizing Teaching and Learning for Bilingual Education
2. Time: April 28, 2023（Fri）10:00 ~ 16:00（UTC+8）
3. Venue: National Taipei University Sanxia Campus, Room 119, Public Affairs Building. （Address: No. 151, University Rd., Sanxia Dist., New Taipei City 237）
4. Forum formats: On-site in-person participation
5. Registration deadline: April 19, 2023（Wed）before 17:00
6. Registration link: https://reurl.cc/b7m3lX
7. Organizer: Bilingual Education Office, College of Business, and Language Center, National Taipei University.

（in-person participation）

Keynote speech-1
• Time: 10:10-11:00
• Title: How to learn from teaching in English? Beauty and sadness in EMI
• Speaker: Chih-Yun Wu, Associate Professor and Director, Department of Business Administration, Tunghai University.
• ※ Presentation in Mandarin.

Keynote speech-2
• Time: 11:10-12:00
• Title: 經濟課程的互動式EMI教學 : 理想與現實
• Speaker: Chen-Jui Huang, Associate Professor and Director, Department of Finance, Tunghai University.
• ※ Presentation in Mandarin.

Keynote speech-3
• Time: 13:00-14:15
• Title: Story-Listening and Guided Self-Selected Reading for Optimal Teaching
• Speaker: Beniko Mason, Professor Emerita, Shitennoji University Junior College. （remote）
• Moderator: Ching-Kang Liu, Professor Emeritus, Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, National Taipei University. （on-site）
• ※ Presentation in English.

Keynote speech-4
• Time: 14:35-15:50
• Title: Making Home Between Languages and Cultures
• Speaker: Peilin Liang, Associate professor, Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies, National University of Singapore. （remote）
• Moderator: Sue-Han Ueng, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics Supervisor, Language Center, National Taipei University. （on-site）
• ※ Presentation in English.

※For the forum agenda and speaker information, please see: https://reurl.cc/1eO93V

If you have any questions, please write/call:
Contact person: Gaili Cha, Assistant, Bilingual Education Office, National Taipei University
E-mail: chagaili7408@gm.ntpu.edu.tw
Telephone:（02）886-2-8674-1111 ext.66951