台中市英語教學 聘歐美外師

台中市落實英語教學 外師不足分配難

更新日期:2011/08/31 17:08(記者 林文豪採訪報導)

台中市為了落實市長胡志強英語教學向下延伸的政策，今年度一共聘僱20位歐美外籍英語教師，不過，合併前原台中市就有12位教師，合併後卻只增加8位，大台中幅員更廣，突顯教師資源明顯不足，教育局表示將再爭取經費來強化教學品質。

台中市每年編列預算落實聘僱外籍英語教師教學，在縣市合併前，以每名教師一年100萬經費來看，每年編列12名教師要1200萬預算，但縣市合併後，幅員跟人口變更多，卻只有增聘8名教師，還要分配到台中226所學校，外籍教師人數明顯不足，教育局長賴清標表示，外籍教師的確不足，而原臺中市聘僱外籍英語教師10名，原臺中縣聘僱2名；縣市合併後市府編列充裕的經費，再增聘8位外師，以分配至偏鄉及英語中心學校優先，包含海線與山線地區學校，未來也會再爭取預算加強師資。


另外，依照教育部課程綱要規定國小三年級開始上英語課並有一定節數，但教育局表示台中市個別校可自行決定彈性課程，以致於各國小都在一、二年級就提前開始上英語課，也增加英語課程節數，台中市要落實英語教學向下延伸，其實更突顯外籍教師不足的問題。

台中聘20歐美澳英語教師

更新日期:2011/09/01 00:07 【記者張淑珠／台中報導】

為提升國中小英語文教學成效，台中市政府聘僱二十位來自歐美及澳大利亞等國合格英語教師，這二十位外籍英語教師將服務二十所英語推動學校及偏鄉學校，有助於營造完善的英語學習環境，培養學生聽說讀寫的英語溝通能力，讓孩子瞭解及接納多元文化，擴展孩子的世界觀。

教育局表示，原台中市聘僱外籍英語教師十名，原台中縣聘僱二名；縣市合併後市府編列充裕的經費，再增聘八位外師，以分配至偏鄉及英語中心學校優先，包含海線與山線地區學校。外籍英語教師協助學校課程教材的編選、研究與發展，並透過教學觀摩、演示、經驗分享本國英語教師。

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These two pieces of news reported on the same event, yet presented it in different perspectives. The second one seems to only focus on the advantages of hiring foreign English teachers. Nonetheless, the first one pointed out certain deficiencies of the policy of  hiring foreign English teachers. On a personal level, I like to see more reports on the same issue. It's because I can have more comprehensive view toward the discussed issue. The issue of hiring foreign English teachers in Taichung City is a good example. If we only read the second piece of news report, we may focus on the advantages of this policy and fail to notice the underlying problem-there are more than 20 schools in Taichung City, but only 20  foreign English teachers are hired. This shows that the resources isn't enough to provide all schools to implement the policy of extending English learning to first graders. According to the news, apparently only schools in the remote places and schools that  make a lot of effort on English learning would receive such resources. But how about other schools that belong to neither of the two categories? I understand why the government decided to allocate the resource in such way; however,  I doubt that other schools would have the chance to receive this kind of resource. After all, it's nearly impossible for Taichung City to ask for enough budget to cover the expense of hiring enough foreign English teachers to have all schools to receive the resource. I think that  the government would have a plan to solve the problem; or at least, the government has prepared a plan for schools in Taichung City to share the limited resource of foreign English teachers in the future.