Given the novelty of foreign instructors in Taiwan, it's still too early to render a verdict regarding their pedagogical merit. However, judging by the controversy that employing foreign instructors has ignited, many scholars have concluded that the crux of the current dilemma is not a paucity of suitable teachers, but instead relates to how English-language education continues to burrow deeper and deeper into childhood.
由於外籍英語教師進駐學校的時日尚短，還無法全面評估利弊，但從引進外籍教師引發國內對英語教學的種種爭議看來，很多學者認為，當前英語教學所面臨的關鍵問題，不是師資不足，而是英語教學不斷向低學齡延伸引出的其他課題，更值得深思。