SMILE Report at Taichung

At the International Education Showcase hosted by the Taichung International Education Center, Mingdao High School presented its achievements from three years of participation in the SMILE Project. As Taiwan’s key partner promoting the SMILE Project, Mingdao highlighted English as a lingua franca and its role in creating authentic language-use situations for students. Coordinator Lee, Tsung-Che emphasized that Mingdao will continue expanding cross-school collaboration to strengthen meaningful global learning. (Text by Mark)

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