Promoting EMI courses requires interdepartmental collaboration, gradual planning, and depends on consensus and joint efforts among faculty, administrative staff, and students.
[Course-Related Measures]

• "Subsidy for All-English Courses and Degree Programs" : Providing incentive mechanisms for teachers who complete training and plan to offer EMI courses, ESAP (English for Specific Academic Purposes) courses, and EGAP (English for General Academic Purposes) courses.
• "ESAP Professional Academic English Course Subsidies": Encouraging teachers to offer ESAP courses that help students smoothly transition to EMI teaching, with corresponding incentive mechanisms.
• "EMI in CMI Classroom Pilot Project": Encouraging teachers to convert one-fourth of their Chinese-taught professional courses to trial EMI teaching, as a reference for future full-semester EMI courses.
• "EMI Course Clusters and College-Required EMI Course Subsidies": Promoting teaching units to plan EMI course clusters, gradually establishing distinctive EMI curriculum maps.

[EMI Teaching Enhancement Measures]

• "EMI Teacher Training Program": Since the 110 academic year, these have been formally incorporated into the university's "NCHU Guidelines Governing Implementation of Teaching Capability Development Courses for New Faculty Members," becoming one of the required professional development workshops for all new full-time faculty, new faculty members need to complete a 40 hours EMI Teacher Certificate Training Program.
• "Intercollegiate Multidisciplinary Peer Observation Community": Encouraging teachers of EMI courses and ESAP courses to observe each other's classes and exchange professional teaching feedback.
• "Modular Bilingual Courses Development Teachers Community Project": Encouraging language and professional domain teachers to jointly develop ESAP course syllabus.
• "EMI/Bilingual Teaching Workshops for Teachers and TAs": Enhancing teachers' and TAs' teaching abilities in all-English teaching environments, covering teaching strategies, classroom management, and interactive teaching tools to help participants master effective teaching methods.

Through these supporting measures, we aim to support teaching units and faculty who wish to develop all-English instruction courses, steadily promoting curriculum development and ensuring teaching quality.
 

1. According to Article 4, Item 2 of the "Guidelines Governing Implementation of Teaching Capability Development Courses for New Faculty Members" of NCHU, new teachers should obtain a certificate of completion of the EMI teaching skills course approved by the Academic Affairs Office within four semesters of joining the university.

2. The courses in EMI teaching skills currently recognized by NCHU mainly include but are not limited to the following:
(1) (Teachers register and obtain by themselves) Certificate of completion issued by National Chung Hsing University EMI Teaching and Learning Center
(2) (Teachers register and obtain by themselves) Certificate of completion of the "Center for Higher Education EMI Professional Development" courses at the EMI PD Center of National Cheng Kung University
(3) (Teachers register and obtain by themselves) National Sun Yat-sen University "EMI Professional Development Program" course training
(4) Cambridge English "Certificate in EMI Skills" Certificate of Completion
(5) Oxford EMI Training "English Medium Instruction Certificate for University Lecturers" Certificate of Completion
(6) Trinity College London "Certificate for Practicing Teachers" EMI certification course certificate
(7) EMI teaching skills courses lasting up to 36 hours (including a 15-minute microteaching). For other related questions, please contact the BERC (04-22840153)

3. If the applicant falls under the circumstances specified in Article 5 of the said key points (having completed relevant courses, possessing relevant teaching experience, etc.), he/she shall submit relevant supporting documents for application. Applicants who pass the review may be exempted from taking relevant training courses.

1. Teaching Assistants (TAs) play different roles in class and after class depending on the requirements of various courses and teaching models. However, we hope that TAs (especially those serving in EMI courses) can develop the ability to guide small group discussions and help students use university-common vocabulary for classroom communication. Therefore, the Bilingual Center will regularly organize bilingual TA workshops, aiming to enable both domestic and international TAs to make good use of their basic English skills and further improve their classroom communication abilities.
2. Teachers can certainly recruit international students as TAs. The university's International Affairs Office has established 'International Students TA Scholarship' regulations to encourage international master's and doctoral degree students to assist faculty who teach in English (please refer to the process diagram below).

(Image source: Office of International Affairs, National Chung Hsing University)

NCHU BERC Outstanding Bilingual Teaching Assistant Award

To improve EMI teaching at National Chung Hsing University, the Bilingual Education Resource Center has launched this plan to support and reward teaching assistants (TAs). Bilingual TAs are students who assist in EMI or ESAP classes and must follow the university’s TA regulations, serving for at least one semester. The center organizes a selection committee of experienced teachers and TA representatives to review applications fairly. Applications are accepted once per semester, and winners will be announced separately.

For more details, please click this link: [Outstanding TA Awards]

Q: If I have already received teaching assistant rewards from other units, can I still receive a reward from your center?

A: If the teaching assistant materials submitted by the winning bilingual TA have already received a similar award from another unit of the university (such as the "Outstanding Teaching Assistant" from the Teaching Resources and Development Center, etc), the monetary reward can only be received from one source and cannot be duplicated. However, our center will still present a certificate to express encouragement and recognition.
 

To encourage our students to obtain credible English language certification and enhance their English Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing skills, Bilingual Education Resource Center, "BERC" has formulated "Proposal for the Improvement of Students' English-language Proficiency" (refer to picture below).

Click Here for details or contact us at (04)22840153 ext 25

EMI Level Certificate(English as a Medium of Instruction) courses.

Step 1. Log in "NCHU Single Sign On System".
Step 2. Enter "Academic Affairs System".
Step 3. Click "Records & Documentation" on the left side.
Step 4. Click "EMI Level Certificate" and you may see your historical EMI course Enrollment Records and the button of printing certificate.

Details about the level, click the link
Example as the attached file