ABSTRACT
Overseas Chinese students have been actively recruited to come to Taiwan for study since 1962. Such recruitment is quite logical in light of the large number of overseas Chinese around the world. In overseas Chinese communities, sustaining established cultural traditions and maintaining educational ideals are considered imperatives. In 2009 the Department of Applied Chinese Language and Literature in Taiwan piloted a program that invited approximately 30 overseas Chinese students to their department in 2010 as a separate student cohort. Overseas Chinese-heritage students currently studying to be Mandarin Chinese language teachers at a university in Taiwan were given the opportunity to complete a survey that presented the questions of this study. All survey data for this study were collected and compiled with frequency counts and percentages generated for fixed range items. Overseas Chinese-heritage students are also surely no strangers to operating appropriately in intricate linguistic environments.
