The Center for Research on Foreign Language Teaching for Elementary Schools, funded by the Ministry of Education, was established in 2014 by the Department of English at National Taichung University of Education (NTCU). The Center members, English teacher educators at NTCU, have been devoted to researching how to prepare English teachers at the elementary level and enhance the current teacher education programs.
The Center provides opportunities for teacher educators, researchers, and practitioners in the field of English teaching to come together, share, and learn from each other. In so doing, the Center has formed a community of English teaching and language. In response to the implementation of the 12-year Basic Education Curriculum Guidelines, the primary mission of this Center highlights four aspects: (1) seeding teacher educators in different universities; (2) studying books of English teaching methods and materials to develop exemplified lesson plans as well as practical teaching principles; (3) encouraging teacher educators to participate in clinical teaching; (4) convening workshops to share resources and promote research findings.