Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Qimai visited Qijin Junior High School this morning to inspect the teaching situation of the bilingual basketball club. Chen Qimai couldn't help picking up the basketball and dribbling.

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[Reporter Xu Lijuan/Kaohsiung Report] Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Qimai visited Qijin Junior High School this morning (17th) to inspect the results of promoting bilingual education on campus. Under the leadership of foreign teachers, Qijin Junior High School students used games to teach English, and even the basketball club also combined bilingual applications. Chen Qimai couldn't help playing dribble and shooting when he saw the basketball, but he made shots outside the 3-point line and the free throw line. 800 people have been added, but it is still unable to meet the needs of various schools.

Chen Qimai said that the budget for bilingual education in Kaohsiung has increased from 60 million yuan before he took office to 240 million yuan. The most important goal is to popularize bilingual education and shorten the gap between urban and rural areas. The biggest problem is the supply of teachers. In the past few years, the number of teachers has been accelerated to about 800. Even so, there is no way to meet the needs of various schools.

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Chen Qimai said that in some schools where teachers are not yet in place, bilingual clubs will provide an immersive learning environment to make students more interested and more life-oriented to understand English or other commonly used vocabulary in daily life. In the past, they used to be crammed Teaching, learning English is only for exams, but now that they are gradually able to contact with foreign countries more time, students are more urgently in need of American English or English in daily life. The bilingual teaching in Kaohsiung City is different from other counties and cities. The place.

In terms of teacher training, in cooperation with Sun Yat-sen University and Wenzao University of Foreign Languages, etc., the future plan will expand bilingual clubs on the one hand, and on the other hand, in terms of teacher training, will also speed up efforts to deploy bilingual teachers.

Huang Huoyan, the principal of Qijin Junior High School, said that the biggest dream of David, the Canadian foreign teacher of the school, is to become a basketball coach. Therefore, a bilingual basketball club was specially set up to allow students to learn English about basketball courts, rules and other aspects while playing basketball. , while satisfying the teaching and learning fun of teachers and students.

According to the Education Bureau, 362 bilingual clubs were established in Kaohsiung City in the 111 school year, and during the winter and summer vacations, combined with the characteristics of the community, bilingual themed courses such as ecological guides, zoos, art galleries, and light rail were planned to provide life-oriented bilingual learning situations.

Chen Qimai tried to shoot, but it took 3 or 4 shots before he finally scored.

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The bilingual foreign teachers of Qijin Junior High School lead students to learn English through games.

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The students of the bilingual basketball club dribbled the ball to complete the task while listening to English instructions.

(Photo by reporter Xu Lijuan)