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Student-Centered Classes
Kojen believes that students learn a language by using it. In our classes, students speak to each other during every class. Our teachers don't lecture. Rather, they create fun and interesting games, activities, discussions, and role-plays to insure that the students are always practicing their English.
Our Highly Qualified and
Dedicated Teaching Staff
All of our teachers have university degrees and many have Master's degrees. All our teachers are legal resident-visa holders. Our foreign teachers mostly come from the United States and Canada, England, and Australia, but we also have many teachers from other native English-speaking countries, giving our students the opportunity to listen to and learn from many different accents.
Teacher Training
Academic training is not enough. All Kojen teachers
must first observe classes, and take training workshops, before they start teaching. Our teachers all go through training before they ever meet with students. Experienced teachers observe other teachers' classes so that they
learn new ideas and share ideas. Kojen also gives workshops on a regular basis for our teachers to improve teaching skills. Before every class, there are always teacher trainers on duty to assist in class preparation.
The Finest English Teaching Library in Taiwan
Kojen teachers have created over 10,000 handouts and activities.
They are categorized by both level and topic for easy access. All of these materials were created for students in Taiwan. Where other schools use canned materials that may have been created in America or other countries (with little application to the real-life needs of students in Taiwan), Kojen materials are created with a sensitive focus on the needs of the Taiwanese student. Our library of materials is expanding daily because our teachers are always creating new materials that are classroom tested and then added to our files.
Our Cooperative Conversational Method
At Kojen, our emphasis is on function.
We focus on getting students to successfully participate in everyday English conversations. By creating real-life dialogues that students are likely to have, and then by having the students practice and then expand these dialogues, we prepare our students for conversations that they will have when speaking English. Grammar is taught too, but only in order to help students make their meaning clear. We don't believe that rote repetition of grammar patterns will help our students excel at English without any connection to a real-life conversation.
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