ABSTRACT
Established in 1951 jointly as The English Training Center by the US Government Aid Agency and the Executive Yuan’s Council on US Aid (CUSA), the Center conducted English training for US-bound technical assistance program participants and gave them pre-departure orientation. The English Training Center1 (later known as The English Center) used only one old classroom on the Medical College campus of National Taiwan University (NTU) and trained only about 100 students per year. A few years later, because of the increase in the number of students and their widely differing English abilities, the Center moved to fi ve classrooms behind the NTU College of Engineering. Meanwhile, CUSA signed a contract with NTU to construct a building on the Medical College campus exclusively for English language training and the Center moved to the new building in 1961.
