Reports raise eyebrows over Taiwan’s English levels
Wang Shu-wei, Cambridge ESOL's marketing manager in
"High school teaching often focuses on memorizing vocabulary and grammar, which bores students to death and causes them to lose interest in learning English," she said. "This pattern tends to carry over into tertiary education and explains students' poor ratings."
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A report issued by the U.S.-based Educational Testing Service also found that the island's secondary and tertiary students have poor English reading and writing skills.
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