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Conference Information
Seminar Name:Tunghai International Conference on Second
Language Research
Organizers: Department of Foreign Languages and Literature,
International Graduate Program of Teaching Chinese as a
Second Language, and the English Center of Tunghai
University
Sponsors: NSTC, R&D Office and College of Arts of Tunghai University
Guiding Unit: National Science and Technology Council
Seminar Time: 2023 / 10 / 21 (Sat.)
Onsite Conference: Language Building & College of Arts Building,
Tunghai University
Conference
Program
Oct. 21th, 2023
08:30
Registration
9:00-9:20
Opening Remark
9:20-10:30
Keynote Speech 1
Cornelius C. Kubler
10:30-12:00
(parallel)
Sub-theme 1
(three oral presentations)
Sub-theme 2
(three oral presentations)
Sub-theme 3
(three oral presentations)
12:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
(parallel)
Sub-theme 1
(Three oral presentations)
Sub-theme 2
(Three oral presentations)
Sub-theme 3
(Three oral presentations)
15:30-16:00
Tea Break
16:00-17:00
Keynote speech 2
Xuesong (Andy) Gao
Workshop
17:00-17:20
Closing Remark
18:00-20:00
Gala Dinner
The Speakers
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INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS
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Keynote speech 1

Professor Cornelius C. Kubler
Stanford Tenured Professor of Asian Studies, William University, USA
Professor Cornelius C. Kubler has a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and a doctorate in linguistics from Cornell University in the United States, and a master's degree in Chinese literature from National Taiwan University. He is currently the Stanfield Lifelong Chair Professor at Williams College and Adjunct Chair Professor of the Chinese Language Teaching Degree Program at National Chengchi University. Former president of the American Institute in Taiwan Chinese School, director of the Department of Asian and African Languages at the Foreign Affairs College of the US State Department, Fulbright visiting professor at the Huayong Institute of National Taiwan Normal University, visiting professor at the Institute of Linguistics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Johns Hopkins in the United States University-Nanjing University Sino-American Cultural Research Center, American Director, National Tsinghua University Chair Professor, etc. Author of 33 books and more than 60 academic papers on linguistics and language teaching.
Professor Xuesong (Andy) Gao
The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher (Springer) Chief Deputy Editor
Professor Xuesong (Andy) Gao is an internationally renowned expert in language teaching and acquisition, currently serving in the Faculty of Education, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales, Australia. His research interests include the educational experience of international students, language learning, language and literacy education, language education policy, and language teacher education. For many years he has promoted the use of sociocultural or ecological perspectives to understand language learners' strategy use, with research published in English Language Teaching Journal, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Language Teaching, Language Teaching Research, Studies in Higher Education , System, Teaching and Teacher Education and TESOL Quarterly. He was an Outstanding Young Researcher of the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong (2015), and a co-recipient of the TESOL Award for Outstanding Papers on NNEST Questions (2012-2013).
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Keynote speech 2