Collaboration between industry and academia dates back to the Morill Act (1862) in the United States and has flourished since then in many countries. It has played an important role in higher education in Taiwan since last decades. The importance of collaboration between industry and academia differs from faculty to faculty. As far as foreign language learning is concerned, the goals are: 1. Providing chances for students to learn core skills needed on the job, such as problem analysis and solving, interpersonal communication. It is also expected that the students find their deficiency of the skills necessary on the job and later learn those skills when practicing their foreign languages in a collaboration project. 2. Offering the college teachers an opportunity to adjust their teaching objectives and course contents in response to the social and economical change. 3. Integrating the resources of all units at the university to optimize the foreign language teaching and learning. The aim of this paper is to find out the significance of collaboration between industry and academia in foreign language learning by means of analyzing three projects conducted/supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Education and the Foreign Languages Faculty at Fu Jen University.
