WHAT CAN THE NATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROJECT 2020 LEARN FROM ASIAN EXPERIENCES?

Abstract

The National Foreign Language Project 2020 has entered the 6th year of its life
(2008-2017), and throughout its short life, controversies and doubts have been cast over its practicality from both the domestic and international professional discourses as well as from home mass media. In an attempt to offer some advice to the Ministry of Education and Training on the needed strategic adjustments for the remaining time of the Project, this paper analyzes the status quo of recent English language initiatives in some Asian countries. The paper, then, presents the recommendations for the locus of change that the Project needs to target at in its
remaining timelife.