| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 勞工研究所 === 96 === This research wants to probe into the three phases (before, during, and after) of
foreign professionals working in Taiwan, so as to understand the working
communication in Taiwan that foreign professionals use, their working situation and
living adaptation during in Taiwan, their career plans in the future, and the opinions of
employees and employers on related regulations.
This research uses the method of having interviews with the foreign English
teachers and native employers. From March 2007 to April 2007, 7 foreign English
teachers and 2 native employers were conducted. The main findings of this research
are as below:
I. Before coming to Taiwan：
1. Explore life experience is the reason that most foreign English teachers want to
find a job out of original country.
2. The connection of internet and relation of social network become the most
important factors for foreign professional skills about acquiring the information
of work opportunity, and solving the daily lives problems in Taiwan.
3. Because of distance, it causes risk factors through Taiwanese employers recruit
foreign English teachers.
4. There still have the spaces to improve the transaction cost spent in foreign
professionals importing and applying procedure after CLA implementing the
“Single Window” program.
II. Staying in Taiwan：
1. In Living:
a. In general, foreign English teachers in these interviews are satisfied with the
living environment in Taiwan.
b.Disappointedly, there is a blemish which is the English condition in Taiwan not
good enough, and there are no bilingual instruction in many public places
facilities, documents, and products.
2. In Work:
a. There are limitation for foreign English teachers to know about their own work
rights and interests in Taiwan.
b. The NSC system in attracting foreign professionals tends to be passive, there is
not enough attractiveness.
c. In general, we should consider native English teachers’ work rights and then
introduces the foreign teacher. There is a great positive benefit to our development
in promote English ability.
d. There are some problems existing in the environment of scholarly research in
Taiwan recently which are the unbalance of the resources distribution and
disproportion of region development.
III. Future plan：
1. Acquiring the foreign work experience is very important for these foreign English
teachers living and works in original country finally.
2. Taiwanese friendship and enthusiasm may become one of the factors that make
foreign English teachers come again.
To sum up, this research suggests that we government should emphasize more
on the integration of related departments to indeed implement “Single Window”
system, keep on improving our international condition, and strengthen the work
connection between the West and Taiwan, all of the above will help promoting
Taiwanese economic development and international image.
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