補助人文及社會科學研究圖書計畫規劃主題：語言教育－課程設計與教材教法

Foreign language competence has long been recognized as the key for international communication, and foreign language education plays a pivotal role in determining a nation’s development. The success of foreign language education depends much on the quality of curriculum design, teaching materials, and teaching methods. Teachers and researchers thus need to read extensively to gain essential professional knowledge. With the adequate knowledge, they can help to improve the quality curriculum design, teaching materials, and teaching methods. To advance language professionals’ knowledge, it is necessary to build up a fine collection of books and journals on curriculum design, teaching materials, and teaching/learning methods. Although some collections on these themes have been accumulated in Taiwan, the quality of collection is still insufficient compared to those in the world’s leading universities. Many excellent books on the related themes are not acquired in Taiwan. In addition, with the advancement of various theories and the emergence of new ones, the numbers of new publications on curriculum design and teaching materials/methods are increasing rapidly. These new publications might benefit researchers, material writers, and language teachers with new visions on advancing foreign language education in Taiwan. To enhance language professionals’ knowledge and understanding of foreign language education, this one-and-a-half years Acquisition Project focused on the theme of curriculum development, teaching materials, and teaching methods of foreign language education. The research interests and publications of the existing faculty in the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University, along with its future visions of departmental development and student education, lay the groundwork for this project. This project targeted on eight sub-topics of foreign language education: curriculum development theory, curriculum of English for specific purpose, teaching materials development, and teaching/learning methods of vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In this project, 914 hard-copied books and 102 digital theses/dissertations were collected. We believe that the outcomes of this project help to build up a top-notch library collection on the study of the aforementioned topics in language education, and to facilitate resource circulation as well as advance academic research on foreign language education.