Around this time, the well-known linguist Lin Yu-tang returned to Taiwan from the United States. Kai-ming Publishing asked Lin to put together a series of English teaching materials for middle-school students, and wanted to produce a set of tapes to go along with the texts.
當時語言大師林語堂自美回台定居，開明書局委託他編寫一套中學英語教科書，還要製成錄音帶。