Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School Teaches Traditional Chinese Characters, Maintaining the Bond of Taiwanese Cultural Identity
The Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School celebrates its 35th anniversary, promoting multilingual learning with traditional Chinese character education at its core. It serves as an important educational hub in Malaysia for overseas Taiwanese businesspeople's children and other international students, reinforcing Taiwanese culture and educational ties between Taiwan and Malaysia.
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(Central News Agency reporter Huang Tzu-chiang, Kuala Lumpur, 1st) The Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School, with traditional Chinese character education at its core, is one of the four Taiwan schools established by the Ministry of Education in Southeast Asia. Through a comprehensive curriculum and multilingual learning, it maintains Taiwan's educational context within Malaysia's multicultural society, becoming an important educational base connecting Taiwan and Malaysia.
Taiwan has established four Taiwan schools in Southeast Asia, located in Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Jakarta, and Surabaya in Indonesia. Among them, the Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School, founded in 1991, is a crucial base for promoting education and cultural heritage overseas for a long time.
Today marks the 35th-anniversary celebration and sports day. Taiwanese businesspeople, parents of international students, and representatives from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Malaysia attended together, strengthening campus identity and cultural connection.
Representative Lien Yu-ping stated, "The Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School is an important educational institution for Taiwan overseas, and it is also a window for Taiwanese education abroad."
Principal Cheng Ya-fen of Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School told a Central News Agency reporter that the Taiwan school continues Taiwan's education system, adopting the 108 curriculum guidelines and Taiwanese textbooks, with traditional Chinese characters as the main teaching language. It aims to cultivate students' problem-solving abilities and adaptability to the future with a competency-oriented approach, strengthening knowledge application and connection to life.
Walking into the campus, traditional Chinese character slogans are displayed in corridors and on bulletin boards. Whiteboards in classrooms of all grades show the names of students on duty. A large number of traditional Chinese books are displayed in the reading area, creating a complete language learning environment that connects the learning context with Taiwanese campuses. In addition to teaching traditional Chinese writing, teachers also explain the evolution of character forms and cultural connotations through graphics and text, allowing students to continuously deepen their understanding of Taiwanese culture overseas.
The Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School has a kindergarten, primary school section, junior high school section, and senior high school section. Besides children of Taiwanese businesspeople, it also includes Malaysian and other foreign national children, with about 12 countries and regions represented among the students. The school promotes trilingual teaching in Chinese, English, and Malay, balancing local integration with international connectivity.
In a fifth-grade primary school class, teachers teach Malay in a life-oriented way, practicing through scenarios such as greetings and shopping. Students are divided into groups for role-playing, interacting with simple sentences to become familiar with the language's feel through repeated practice and build local communication skills.
Cheng Ya-fen pointed out that the school has long promoted international educational exchanges, establishing cooperative relationships with various universities in Taiwan and signing alliance programs with local international universities to promote resource sharing and student exchange. Through inter-school cooperation, it connects to Taiwan's higher education system and also expands students' international perspectives, cultivating global mobility skills in a multilingual and multicultural environment.
The establishment of Taiwan schools originated from the needs of Taiwanese businesspeople expanding southward. Chairman Wang Chin-tsung stated that the biggest concern for Taiwanese businesspeople back then was their children's education. Without schools, families would be difficult to settle, and education would be hard to connect. "Under such circumstances, a group of people made a difficult but firm decision to establish their own school for the next generation."
On this basis, the Taiwan school gradually developed a curriculum centered on Taiwanese culture and civic education, guiding students to understand the importance of Taiwan's democratic development and civic participation, and cultivating public consciousness and responsibility. The school pointed out that from electoral systems, freedom of speech to diverse social values, all are integrated into teaching, enabling students to understand the core spirit of Taiwan's social operation even overseas.
In addition, through daily education such as class autonomy, public discussion, and teamwork, the campus strengthens the practice of values, allowing students to experience respect for differences, rational dialogue, and self-expression during the learning process.
The Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School has been established for 35 years. From responding to the educational needs of Taiwanese businesspeople's children in its early years, it has developed into a learning environment that integrates traditional Chinese character education, trilingual education, and international exchange. In a multicultural environment, the Taiwan school continues to accumulate profound educational and cultural influence. As the school says, many changes may not be easy to detect, but they have gradually fermented on campus, becoming important nourishment for students moving towards the future.
Taiwan has established four Taiwan schools in Southeast Asia, located in Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Jakarta, and Surabaya in Indonesia. Among them, the Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School, founded in 1991, is a crucial base for promoting education and cultural heritage overseas for a long time.
Today marks the 35th-anniversary celebration and sports day. Taiwanese businesspeople, parents of international students, and representatives from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Malaysia attended together, strengthening campus identity and cultural connection.
Representative Lien Yu-ping stated, "The Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School is an important educational institution for Taiwan overseas, and it is also a window for Taiwanese education abroad."
Principal Cheng Ya-fen of Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School told a Central News Agency reporter that the Taiwan school continues Taiwan's education system, adopting the 108 curriculum guidelines and Taiwanese textbooks, with traditional Chinese characters as the main teaching language. It aims to cultivate students' problem-solving abilities and adaptability to the future with a competency-oriented approach, strengthening knowledge application and connection to life.
Walking into the campus, traditional Chinese character slogans are displayed in corridors and on bulletin boards. Whiteboards in classrooms of all grades show the names of students on duty. A large number of traditional Chinese books are displayed in the reading area, creating a complete language learning environment that connects the learning context with Taiwanese campuses. In addition to teaching traditional Chinese writing, teachers also explain the evolution of character forms and cultural connotations through graphics and text, allowing students to continuously deepen their understanding of Taiwanese culture overseas.
The Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School has a kindergarten, primary school section, junior high school section, and senior high school section. Besides children of Taiwanese businesspeople, it also includes Malaysian and other foreign national children, with about 12 countries and regions represented among the students. The school promotes trilingual teaching in Chinese, English, and Malay, balancing local integration with international connectivity.
In a fifth-grade primary school class, teachers teach Malay in a life-oriented way, practicing through scenarios such as greetings and shopping. Students are divided into groups for role-playing, interacting with simple sentences to become familiar with the language's feel through repeated practice and build local communication skills.
Cheng Ya-fen pointed out that the school has long promoted international educational exchanges, establishing cooperative relationships with various universities in Taiwan and signing alliance programs with local international universities to promote resource sharing and student exchange. Through inter-school cooperation, it connects to Taiwan's higher education system and also expands students' international perspectives, cultivating global mobility skills in a multilingual and multicultural environment.
The establishment of Taiwan schools originated from the needs of Taiwanese businesspeople expanding southward. Chairman Wang Chin-tsung stated that the biggest concern for Taiwanese businesspeople back then was their children's education. Without schools, families would be difficult to settle, and education would be hard to connect. "Under such circumstances, a group of people made a difficult but firm decision to establish their own school for the next generation."
On this basis, the Taiwan school gradually developed a curriculum centered on Taiwanese culture and civic education, guiding students to understand the importance of Taiwan's democratic development and civic participation, and cultivating public consciousness and responsibility. The school pointed out that from electoral systems, freedom of speech to diverse social values, all are integrated into teaching, enabling students to understand the core spirit of Taiwan's social operation even overseas.
In addition, through daily education such as class autonomy, public discussion, and teamwork, the campus strengthens the practice of values, allowing students to experience respect for differences, rational dialogue, and self-expression during the learning process.
The Kuala Lumpur Taiwan School has been established for 35 years. From responding to the educational needs of Taiwanese businesspeople's children in its early years, it has developed into a learning environment that integrates traditional Chinese character education, trilingual education, and international exchange. In a multicultural environment, the Taiwan school continues to accumulate profound educational and cultural influence. As the school says, many changes may not be easy to detect, but they have gradually fermented on campus, becoming important nourishment for students moving towards the future.