Taiwan’s Language Policy and Glocalized Language Education
Taiwan, a multilingual society, faces global interest in its language policies. Since 2001, mother-tongue education policies have aimed to preserve Taiwanese, Hakka, and Indigenous languages, yet struggle with limited resources, teacher shortages, and shrinking speaker populations. This lecture reviews the National Language Development Act, analyzing Mandarin’s dominance versus local language preservation. It explores glocalized education, curriculum design, teaching resources, and students’ attitudes. With the 2030 Bilingual Nation Policy aiming to increase the role of English in a Mandarin-dominant society, the complex interplay of language policy and ethnic identity emerges. Recommendations for linguistic diversity and cultural preservation will offer insights for education research and policy.
臺灣的語言政策與在地語言教育現狀
近年語言多樣性與文化保存受全球關注，臺灣作為多語社會，其語言政策成焦點。自 2001 年推行母語教育政策以保存臺語、客語及原住民族語，卻面臨資源不足、師資短缺、使用者減少等挑戰。本演講回顧《國家語言發展法》歷程，探討國語與在地語言平衡及課程設計、教學資源、學生態度等現狀。2030 雙語政策目標將英語與華語並列，激發語言政策與族群認同的深層關係。最後，提出語言多樣性與文化傳承策略，為語言教育研究與政策提供新視角。
Dr. Chin-Chin Tseng is a professor in the Department of Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University. She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Hawaii. Specializing in phonetics, interlanguage, and second language acquisition, her research now focuses on Chinese dialect teacher education, AI-assisted teaching strategies, and creating an interlanguage prosodic database for Chinese language research in Europe. She has held leadership roles at NTNU and received honors such as the RIBiLT Distinguished Professorship at Hong Kong Open University and Taiwan’s National Science Council Research Award on Taiwanese prosody.