Browsing: Formosa Files Video Special

2018年，台灣通過《國家語言發展法》，正式將台灣手語 (Taiwan Sign Language, TSL)納入國家語言之一。臺灣聾教育，以及臺灣手語的發展，都是從日治時期開始。而在臺灣聾教育的歷史中，有一位相當重要的人士：林文勝先生。他是創立於日治時期，現今臺北市立啟聰學校的第二任校長，同時也是位聾人。究竟臺灣聾教育與這位林校長有些什麼關係呢？這次的FORMOSA FILES中文版在2025年12月時來到臺南，訪問兩位臺灣手語教育的先驅：史文漢（Wayne H. Smith）老師以及丁立芬老師，由他們來與我們一起聊聊，臺灣聾教育與這位「三個第一」的林文勝林校長。

The first emperor of China dispatched expeditions to the world’s far corners with a life-and-death task: find and bring back the elixir of immortality. Most famous among these explorers was a Taoist priest named Xu Fu, who sailed into the Eastern Seas. Xu Fu and his fleet vanished. Some legends say he settled in Japan. In Tim McGirk’s novel, Xu Fu goes beyond Japan, traversing the Pacific Ocean and landing upon the shores of the land of the May

This episode is different from the significantly edited on available on the official Formosa Files podcast, where we try to adhere to the mostly non-political stances. This video, however, has no restrictions and is the full one-hour, almost unedited version of Eryk Michael Smith’s chat with Ben Sando.