Lin Ching-chiang is a native Taiwanese. The legislator was not testing his Taiwanese ability, but was raising doubts that there was still an inadequate degree of "Taiwanese-ness" in the standard textbooks for language and social studies for the recently revamped curriculum.
林清江是台灣省籍的官員，立法委員考的不是他的台語程度，而是在質詢日前已經定案的「九年一貫」課程標準「語文」及「社會」教科書編寫的「本土性」還不夠。