Abstract :
Taiwan’s National Development Council recently announced plans
for the country to become bilingual by the year 2030. However, the Council
did not lay out a clear road map for how this major accomplishment is to be
achieved, and the curriculum presently in place does not seem to meet the
challenge. This article will review the current status of English education in
Taiwan as well as extensive reading’s under-utilized role in the present
curriculum. It will then look at how ER is currently being implemented at one
major university on the island and will conclude by arguing that, regardless
of the kinds of curricular changes the Ministry of Education decides to adopt,
extensive reading deserves an intrinsic role in the new design.
