Saturday, December 6, 2025
GIS NTU Convention Center, Socrates Hall
集思臺大會議中心蘇格拉底廳
EAP/ESAP Curriculum and Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities from Policy to Practice
活動資訊
Event Information
- Supervised by: Ministry of Education
- Organized by: The Language Training & Testing Center
- Co-organized by (in alphabetical order):
- National Chung Cheng University
- National Taiwan University
- National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology
主題介紹
Overview
Since 2021, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has been promoting the BEST Program (The Program on Bilingual Education for Students in College) to cultivate university students’ abilities in international academic and workplace communication. The program encourages institutions to offer courses on English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) that meet learner needs, supporting students in transitioning successfully to English-Medium Instruction (EMI) classrooms.
To support the initiative, the MOE has funded the Language Training & Testing Center (LTTC) to develop the BESTEP (BEST Test of English Proficiency), a tool dedicated to assessing the English proficiency required in EMI contexts. With clearly defined descriptors and test focuses, the BESTEP helps track students’ learning progress and fosters positive interactions among teaching, learning, and assessment.
Over the past two years, the BESTEP has upheld the principles of Learning-Oriented Assessment (LOA), continuously releasing a wide range of teaching resources and tools while actively engaging in dialogue with domestic and international academia. This year marks the first one-day BESTEP conference focused on EAP/ESAP curriculum and assessment. This conference aims to systematically share teaching practices and research results using the BESTEP resources—including BESTEP-CEFR linking studies and updates on the spoken learner corpus project—to further professional exchange and collaboration among university educators nationwide.
特色
Key Features
- Policy Perspectives: Latest developments in the BEST Program and bilingual education
- Impact of the BESTEP: Interconnection among teaching, learning, and assessment
- Assessment Applications: Linking course/assessment objectives with performance descriptors, analyzing BESTEP spoken learner corpus
- Lesson Plans: EGAP/ESAP course examples from various universities, including (in alphabetical order):
- National Chung Cheng University
- National Taiwan University
- National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- Resource Sharing: Current practices and future outlook from EMI resource centers
- International Speakers (in alphabetical order):
- Prof. Jason Fan, University of Melbourne (Linking the BESTEP Writing Test to the CEFR)
- Prof. Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (BESTEP Spoken Learner Corpus Development)