Evolution

        The Center was created on February 16, 1984, by decree of the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. To support the development of the relations between France and Taiwan, the former president of National Taiwan Normal University, Mr. Kuo Wei-fan, named as director of French Traininig Center Mrs. Lee Ping-tzu, associated professor with English Department of the University, who was entrusted with the management of the French courses.
        The Center aims to diffuse the French language teaching in Taiwan, to provide a framework privileged to research on French teaching, and to promote the Chinese-French cultural exchanges.
        The person named at the post of director of the Center manages only the administrative affairs. A director of the courses of French nationality is in charge of the pedagogical affairs, the recruitment of teachers, placement tests, etc. Following the retirement of Mrs. LEE Ping-Tzu at the end of February 2002, Mr. TSAI Tzeng-Yang, the President of the Institute of Letters of National Taiwan Normal University, was named at the post of director in part-time of the Center on March 1st, 2002. In August 2003, Mr. WU Wen-Hsing, the current president of the Institute of Letters, was named interim director. Mr. LAI Shou-Cheng, a professor of the English Department, was named, as of August 2004, as director of the Center.
        Located in the Yue-Chi building of the old university campus until November 1994, the Center was then moved into a building on the new campus.
        The Center currently occupies a space of 450 pings, which allows its students to profit from an ample, comfortable and well lit environment, thus producing positive effects on their French training and on the reputation of the Center.
        The number of students increases year after year and since its creation in October 1984, the Center has opened more than 3,700 classes and enrolled more than 71,000 students.

Method

        Our methods are recent and conceived for a fast and effective training. They call upon audio-visual training, as either a basic method or a complementary one. Campus is the handbook used for the elementary courses. Reflets is used for the intermediary and advanced courses and Panorama is used as a basic tool for the advanced improvement courses.

Professor

        The teaching staff consists of 16 professors and constitutes a qualified, experienced and dynamic teaching staff. The Center regularly organizes teaching meetings for the purpose of improving methods of teaching and learning French, thus guaranteeing the quality of the professors.
        The professors which currently make-up our teaching staff are：
      Fabienne BOUCHET, Mira CHEN,
      Annette CHOU, Raphaël DEMANESSE,
      Emmanuelle FONTANGES,
      Thomas HAQUETTE, Juliette LEE,
      Sabine LEYGONIE, Monique LI,
      Claude LIU, Laurent LIU, Alexandre PHAM,
      Jean SCUDERI, Blandine TIEN,
      Emmanuel VILLEMINOT, Angèle YANG

Test

        At the end of each session, students take an examination which determines their aptitude to pass to a higher level. A student may be asked to repeat the level in his own best interest if the acquired bases are insufficient.

Certificate

        The student having been placed into a course in accordance to his aptitudes is consolidated in his progression by evaluations. The following certificates can be issued on request:
        - Certificate of French Language 1st year at the end of the elementary level.
        - Certificate of French Language 2nd year at the end of the intermediary level.
        - Certificate of French Language 3rd year at the end of the advanced level.

Library

        Some 10,000 works primarily on the French literature and the French language teaching, nearly 600 audio cassettes, 300 video cassettes and multi-media documents are available to the students, as well as magazines on Archaeology, History, French society and Taiwanese society, etc.

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