87年2月，時任清華大學校長劉炯朗教授為推廣英文教育，請教務長彭宗平教授協調本校外語系籌設語言中心。同年11月外語系選出王旭教授為籌備委員會召集人，籌備委員包含外語系主任梁耀南教授、劉顯親教授、吳又熙教授及柯安娜教授，以籌設語言中心。

      經過二年運籌惟幄， 語言中心於89年9月正式成立。成立伊始，以公教人員外語進修班為基礎， 92年開始將招生對象擴展至一般民眾，以因應更多的外語進修需求，提供更多的推廣教育服務。目前語言中心外語進修課程包含英語、日語、韓語、西語、德語及法語等六種語言，分別有初級、中級及中高級等不同類型班別，每年開設三期課程，約有1600人參與研習訓練。

      94年起，除進階英文課程外，語言中心承接全校共同英文必選修課程，專責全校英語教學的規劃與活動，以提升全校英語教學成效為目標。除大學部必選修課程外，語言中心同時負責研究所的專業英文選修課程。

      104年8月，語言中心由教務處改編隸屬於清華學院，提供本校英語教育多元課程之規劃、執行、教學與輔導及相關英語教學活動，同時辦理外語推廣教育服務。

February 1998, when Prof. Jiong-Lang Liu was the president of National Tsing Hua University, he appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs, Prof. Zong-Ping Peng, to coordinate Department of Foreign Languages & Literature to set up Language Center, to promote English education. The same year in November, Prof. Xu Wang was elected the convener of the preparation committee of Language Center setup, by Department of Foreign Language & Literature. The committee members included Prof. Yao-Nan Liang, Prof. Hsien-Chin Liu, Prof. You-Xi Wu and Prof. Johanna Katchen.

After two years of planning, Language Center was officially established in September, 2000. In the beginning, the refresher courses were mainly for government employees and teachers. From 2003, enrollment started to reach out to the public in response to growing demands for foreign language learning. At present, there are six foreign language refresher courses offered by Language Center: English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German and French. Different levels of classes, elementary, intermediate and middle-level, are included for all courses, which are offered in three quarters each year, with total enrollment of around 1,600 participants.

At the beginning of 2005, Language Center started to undertake common English language curriculum, mandatory and elective, of whole school, except advanced English courses. It has been responsible for planning and activities of English teaching since then, with the goal of improving effectiveness of English teaching throughout the school. Besides mandatory and elective undergraduate courses, Language Center also takes charge in professional English courses for graduate school students.

August 2015, Language Center was reorganized by Office of Academic Affairs to be affiliated with Tsing Hua College. It is not only in charge of planning, implementing, teaching, advising and relevant English teaching activities of English curriculum with variety, but also providing services of continuing education of foreign languages.