Beliefs of instructors and administers towards motivations online teaching in technological and vocational education in Taiwan

As globalization dominates the world trend for policy makers, how to cultivate our new generation on foreign digital learning is an essential requirement to the development of the country (Taiwan). The trend brings us to the study of online teaching for foreign languages. We focus on the role of the online teaching by foreign language instructors from Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages for technical and vocational education in Taiwan. We studied the instructor´s role in foreign language teaching using a digital learning environment, their motivation and obstacles in teaching online in order to propose concrete and effective reward measures to the government and school´s policy. The participants included 74 college instructors and 35 administrators from Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages. We used quantitative study on all participants. According to SPSS reliability analysis, alpha of the content was .75. The findings of this study provide specific needs of a priority for promoting online teaching.