The students led by Dr. Cheng Hsin-fu (鄭杏孚老師) and participating in the 2023 English Social Solutions Contest have once again achieved great success.
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The students led by Dr. Cheng Hsin-fu (鄭杏孚老師) and participating in the 2023 English Social Solutions Contest (held by Rotary Club of Taipei; Topic: Develop and Present a social project to benefit your community) have once again achieved great success.
Shih Yi-jun (施宜君), Chen Ho-yun (陳荷韻), and Yao Chih-ching (姚芷晴) have all been awarded the Dale Carnegie Prize, while another team, Fan Hao-ching (范皓晴) and Chiu Pei-tong (邱霈彤), have received the Rotary Spirit Prize.
Dr. Cheng’s meticulous and professional guidance and encouragement have enabled these students to showcase their strengths in the competition. Their achievements are not only a personal source of pride but also a source of honor for our department. We hope that our students will continue to work hard, utilize their strengths, and contribute to bringing more positive changes to society.
MCU Ranked 10th in “2023 University Performance Growth Ranking”
Cheers magazine published its “2023 Best University Guide” on February 20, wherein Ming Chuan University ranked as the 10th best university in the country, its best ranking ever.
Ming Chuan University is the first U.S.-accredited university in Asia, and is committed to promoting multilingualism and cross-border instruction, cultivating students’ global career strengths, and implementing the educational philosophy of localizing global knowledge and globalizing local knowledge to enhance students’ career strengths and international outlook and vision.
MCU Vice President Dr. Lynne Lee said that MCU has spared no effort in promoting internationalization, not only is it the only university in Taiwan that has received approval from both the Taiwan and U.S. governments to establish a branch campus in the U.S., but in recent years it has also developed into a global university with 5 locations across national boundaries (Taipei, Taoyuan, Jihe, Kinmen, and Michigan in the U.S.) and three education centers (Thailand, Japan, and Vietnam). The number of foreign students in the 2021-22 academic year continued to rank first among private universities.
In recent years, MCU has been actively promoting the “10 Pillars Competency Evaluation” and “Practical Abilities” to cultivate students with profound basic knowledge and solid professional ability. In the face of digital transformation and increasingly fierce global competition, MCU has introduced AI courses to equip students with practical experience in AI to keep pace with the times, and at the same time strengthen independent learning ability, cross-disciplinary learning, and flexibility in diversified development to stay ahead of the career starting line.
Workshop on TEFL & Applied Linguistics at MCU on 3/17-18
The Department of Applied English (DAE) is hosting an annual international conference on English teaching in celebration of the university’s anniversary. Sponsored by our university as well as the National Science & Technology Council and the Ministry of Education, the department is set to hold its 24th MCU International Conference and Workshop on TEFL & Applied Linguistics at MCU’s Jihe Complex on March 17-18.
Spanning two days, the overarching theme of the conference is Exploring English Education in the Post-Pandemic Era: Reflection and Prospect. The conference program includes six plenary speeches, two invited workshops, one colloquium, and seventy-five paper presentations. An estimated 200 to 250 attendees are expected. Three of the six plenary speeches will be delivered by renowned international scholars in the field of applied linguistics. In addition, twenty international scholars will be presenting their research studies. The remaining three plenary speeches will be given by esteemed scholars from Taiwan. The invited colloquium and two workshops will address exciting and inspiring topics, such as English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education, bilingual education, and teaching methods that promote interaction and communication.
Cedric Deschrijver, Faculty of Applied English Department Awarded Journal of Pragmatics Honor
Assistant Professor Cedric Deschrijver of the Applied English Department, Ming Chuan University, has published a paper “On the metapragmatics of ‘conspiracy theory’: Scepticism and epistemological debates in online conspiracy comments” in the Journal of Pragmatics (SSCI) in September 2021 under the name of Ming Chuan University, which was selected for the 2021 Jacob L. Mey and Hartmut Haberland Early Career Award.
This award selects papers published in the Journal of Pragmatics every year and evaluates the originality of the papers, the breadth of the research field, and its academic impact. According to the 2021 JCR statistics, the journal’s citation rate (Impact Factor) is 1.860, and the ranking (Rank) is 60/194 in the field of linguistics, which makes it a second-level (Q2) journal.