Taiwanese students learning English during intensive summer camp at YSU

By Denise Dick

Staff report

Youngstown

For the third consecutive year, students from Lunghwa University in Taipei, Taiwan, are on the Youngstown State University campus for an intensive English summer camp.

Twenty students and their chaperone, Julia Hsu, a professor of applied foreign languages at Lunghwa, arrived at YSU on July 11. They are living in the Cafaro House residence halls during the three-week camp.

The students attend two class sessions a day, taught by adjunct faculty members from the YSU English department.

Class materials tie in to a number of afternoon and evening activities, including local art/music/cultural festivals, visits to Niagara Falls and Cedar Point, local restaurants, a bowling party, a drive-in movie, a Scrappers game and visits to Mill Creek Park and the Butler Institute of American Art.

A reception for the students with YSU President Cynthia E. Anderson is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Friday, in the DeBartolo Stadium Club at Stambaugh Stadium.

YSU’s partnership with Lunghwa dates to 2006, when the two universities signed a faculty and student exchange agreement. Since then, YSU has hosted dozens of students and four professors from Lunghwa, and YSU has sent faculty and students to Taiwan.