Following on research done by Chu Hui-mei, head of the English Department at the Taipei Municipal Teachers College, in September, 1997, Taipei City selected 19 primary schools to pilot a grade 3 English program. Together with schools not participating in this pilot program, by the end of 1997 there were already 112 primary schools in Taipei City teaching English (75 % of the total).
根據台北市立師範學院英語教學系主任朱惠美的研究指出，八十六年九月台北市選擇了十九所小學試辦三年級英文教學，連同非試辦的學校，台北市在八十六年底已有一一二所（佔百分之七十五）小學實施英語教學。