Studio Classroom publishes three monthly magazines: Let's Talk in English, Studio Classroom and Advanced. Each magazine provides practical, interesting articles to help readers improve their English skills. Radio and/or television programs accompany each article and air Monday through Saturday. The radio programs are also available on Super MP3 and on the Internet.
Our Beginning & Growth
Studio Classroom magazine began in 1962 as a single-page lesson sheet with an accompanying radio program. It was an immediate success. Soon the lessons sheets became magazines of several different levels. By 1981, there were just two magazines: Studio Classroom, which contained Basic and Advanced levels, and Let's Talk in English, a magazine designed specifically for learners wanting to improve their English conversation skills. The lively radio programs along with the interesting content of the magazines led Studio Classroom and Let's Talk in English to become Taiwan's most popular ways of learning English.
In 2001, Advanced split from Studio Classroom and became a separate magazine. The three magazines and their accompanying radio programs continue to provide listeners with quality English education.
When television came to Taiwan, Studio Classroom began to produce programs to use the medium to teach English. Such programs as Globe Theatre, Around the World in English, Wonderful Street, Wonderful Castle, and Good Morning Today introduced English to a large audience. In 1997, Studio Classroom began a daily TV version of its popular radio program, Studio Classroom. In 2000, Let's Talk in English began a television broadcast in partnership with Taiwan's Public Television Station (PTS).
Our Present
Let's Talk in English is the most popular English-teaching magazine in Taiwan, Shanghai and Beijing. In 1999, it was the only English magazine recommended by the Government Information Office for teaching English in Taiwan's junior high schools. Today, Let's Talk remains the best tool for learning everyday English.
Studio Classroom is the second most popular English-teaching magazine in Taiwan. The magazine and accompanying radio and TV programs have won numerous awards over the years, including Taiwan's famous Golden Bell and Golden Tripod Awards. Studio Classroom is distributed and broadcast in Mainland China, the U.S. Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. A station in Kazakhstan broadcasts Studio Classroom throughout the Central Asia and the Middle East. Via the Internet, Studio Classroom programs are available worldwide.
Advanced contains material at the highest English level of the three magazines. It is most suitable for university students and business professionals. Advanced articles cover a wide range of topics. Most are reprinted from international magazines providing Advanced readers with a "Window on the World." In 2004 Advanced won Taiwan's Golden Tripod Award for excellence in the language learning magazine category. Studio Classroom has prepared English-teaching CD-ROMs for Taiwan since 1993 and has created them for Japanese students since in 1996. In 2001, a Korean version of Let's Talk television program in English began.
Our Plan for the Future
We know that competence in English is necessary for success in the international arena. It is our goal to continue expanding Let's Talk in English, Studio Classroom, and Advanced's availability worldwide to all learners of English.
「大家說英語」、「空中英語教室」 以及「彭蒙惠英語」 是由空中英語教室文摘雜誌社(以下簡稱空中英語教室)所發行的三本英語教學雜誌，主要是希望能幫助讀者增進英語技能，讓讀者在有趣、輕鬆的心情中，達到學習英文的目的。課程內容會伴隨著廣播電視教學，於週一至週六播出，廣播教學也可以從網際網路、Super光碟收聽。
開始與成長
六○年代，當時台灣還是典型的農業社會，彭蒙惠老師卻已經感受到提升台灣青年學子英語競爭力的迫切需要，於是一九六二年，「空中英語教室」雜誌配合廣播節目，以單頁講義的型態開始發行。之後為了加強讀者的會話能力，「大家說英語」 於焉推出。多元、健康、豐富的內容，使得「空中英語教室」 與「大家說英語」，成為本地最受歡迎的英語教學雜誌。
二○○一年，原本「空中英語教室」雜誌內的進修級課程更單獨發行，成為第三本英語教學雜誌--「彭蒙惠英語」，原進修級的廣播內容則維持不變。
雜誌與廣播教學始終是我們主要的教學方式，一直到一九七七年，電視傳播部門成立，「空中英語教室」開始電視英語教學節目的製作，如「環球廳」、「世界英語」、「妙妙街」、「妙妙堡」以及「早安今天」等。一九九七年，「空中英語教室」電視教學節目開播；二○○○年，「大家說英語」與台灣的公共電視台，正式合作錄製英語教學節目。
現況
「大家說英語」不但是本地最受歡迎的英語教學雜誌，在上海與北京，也是最暢銷的雜誌。「大家說英語」更自一九九九年起數次從眾多同類型雜誌中脫潁而出，成為唯一榮獲新聞局推薦的中學英語雜誌。如今，「大家說英語」仍是民眾學習日常英語的不二選擇。
「空中英語教室」則是本地發行量僅次於「大家說英語」的英語教學雜誌，紮實豐富的雜誌內容、配合廣播與電視的教學，多年來，贏得金鐘獎與金鼎獎等獎項與肯定。目前「空中英語教室」亦於中國大陸、美、加、歐洲、澳、紐等地發行並播送。透過網際網路，全球各地都可以收看或收聽到我們的課程內容。
Advanced「彭蒙惠英語」則是本系列雜誌中最新、難度也最高的一本，主要是提供給大學生與企業人士等，做為英語進深加強之用，課程內容十分廣泛，涵蓋了旅遊、心理、商業、科技、健康、新聞、人物、文化等主題。大部分的「彭蒙惠英語」內容取材自國際媒體，提供讀者一扇「通往世界之窗」。二oo四年，「彭蒙惠英語」也獲得最佳語言學習類雜誌金鼎獎的榮譽。一九九三年，「空中英語教室」推出CD-ROM；一九九六年再推出日文版CD-ROM。二○○一年，則推出韓文版「大家說英語」電視節目。
未來計劃
我們相信在以英語做為第二語言的今天，英語程度的提升，絕對有助於國際競爭力之提升，期待「空中英語教室」、大家說英語以及「彭蒙惠英語」能協助更多讀者，藉由英文的學習，走向世界，走向未來。
