05/16/2019．Wenzao and Wagor Cultivate a Faculty of Foreign Languages for Cross-School 3V

Wagor International School in Taichung City came to Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages to sign an MOU after multiple visits. President Margaret Mei-Hua Chen indicated that a mutual platform for visits and interactions will be launched in the future, and internships of Wagor education system will also be provided to students of Wenzao. Focusing on language education, the collaboration between these two educational institutions in Taiwan is expected to improve the language learning environment and cultivate foreign language professionals, who will be trained to become competitive global citizens. Since the names of both institutions begin with W, 2 Ws make the shape of 3 Vs, which represents a never-ending win-win-win situation for institutions, faculty members and students.

The founder of Wagor International School, Chang-Ping Yuan, along with Managing Director Wan-Ting Wu, Board Member Hsin-Wen Chang, Special Assistant Hai-Shuo Li, Director Ting-Hui Yeh of the Foreign Language Division, and Chief Po-Ting Chen of the Curriculum Section of the Foreign Language Division  visited Wenzao for the meeting. In order to express the importance of the meeting, the President, two Vice Presidents and relevant top-level executives of Wenzao attended the meeting. The main collaboration purposes included cross-school interactions of staff and faculty, foreign language teaching internships and cultivation of outstanding foreign language professionals. Managing Director Wan-Ting Wu of Wagor International School gave a speech and said that Wenzao and Wagor share the same educational principles and policies, and that Wagor will provide a platform for the faculty and students of Wenzao through collaboration to show its respect for Wenzao. The faculty and students of Wenzao can receive teacher training for ETS’s English proficiency test and various digital English courses based on the diverse elementary and junior high school system of Wagor to obtain new knowledge of teaching. In addition, students who are proficient in any second foreign language will be assigned to Wagor for an internship and interactions. Wagor will provide students of Wenzao with an internship and training system of a high standard. Wagor expects to develop the foreign language teaching market in Taiwan and China with Wenzao, in order to convey the global vision of Wenzao to the world.

In collaboration with Wagor, Wenzao hopes to improve the foreign language teaching level of middle and higher education, seek global expansion for foreign language education business, create more diversified teaching opportunities for its faculty and students, and help students develop skills to find a job right after graduation. President Margaret Mei-Hua Chen of Wenzao stated that Wenzao has many professionals and students proficient in foreign languages; it will send well-performing students to Wagor International School to do an internship, while supporting its partner’s teaching and curriculum design with its language specialty, in order to achieve a win-win-win situation for both institutions and their students.

Director Hsin-Wen Chang of Wagor International School (a student of the 4th graduation class of the Department of Spanish, Wenzao) not only recognized Wenzao’s education system for foreign language professionals, but also paid attention to her fellow students’ future career development. She also said that the second foreign language proficiency possessed by students of Wenzao meets the urgent needs of Wagor, which is why Wagor will give priority to Wenzaorians in its internship and employment system. She guaranteed that students can become more sophisticated through guidance during work, which corresponds to the founding mission of Wenzao for helping alumni to develop successful careers in any place around the world.

Wenzao plays a key role in the collaboration project and pursues domestic and global expansion of language education business with the abundant resources of Wagor. The founder of Wagor International School, Chang-Ping Yuan, hopes that more types of communication will be developed and different outcomes can be achieved during the collaboration with Wenzao to support the multi-language system of its elementary and junior higher school education to cultivate more language professionals meeting global needs.