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Conference Information
Conference Name: 2025 Tunghai University International Conference on Second Language Teaching and Research
Organizers: International Graduate Program of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Chinese Language Center, English Language Center
Sponsors: National Science and Technology Council, Tunghai University Research and Development Office, Tunghai University College of Liberal Arts
Time: December 6-7, 2025 (Saturday-Sunday)
Venue: Tunghai University Language Building
The Speakers
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INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS
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Keynote speech 1
Professor Tanja Kupisch
Professor of Department of Linguistics, University of Lund
Tanja Kupisch was appointed Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Konstanz in 2014. Since 2015 she has been a professor at the Arctic University of Norway. Tanja Kupisch also co-edits, together with Holger Hopp, the journal Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Her research interests include bilingualism and trilingualism in children and adults, as well as bidialectalism, with a primary focus on syntax and phonology. She is also interested in the relationship between language and policy.
Professor Shigenori Wakabayashi
Professor of Faculty of Letters, Chuo University, Japan
Professor Shigenori Wakabayashi received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. His academic interests lie in applied linguistics, particularly in the study of generative grammar related to second language learners’ morphological and syntactic knowledge. He is currently leading a collaborative project—Research based on Experiments with Artificial Language (REAL)—which uses artificial languages to investigate second language acquisition, in partnership with professors from the University of Cambridge, Chuo University, and Utsunomiya University. Professor Wakabayashi is a founding member and former president of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA). He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Second Language Studies. In addition, he is actively involved in English language teaching as the representative director of the Workshop Initiative for Language Learning (WILL), through which he leads the Students Meet Internationally through Language Education (SMILE) project.
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Keynote speech 2
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Keynote Speech 2
2025/12/6 (Saturday)
Opening remark
Sub-theme 2
(three oral presentations)
Sub-theme 1
(three oral presentations)
Sub-theme 2
(three oral presentations)
Keynote speech 1: Tanja Kupisch
Tea break
Lunch
Sub-theme 2
(three oral presentations)
Sub-theme 1
(three oral presentations)
End of Day 1
Tea break
17:00-
08:30-09:00
09:00-09:10
09:10-10:10
10:10-10:30
10:30-12:00
12:00-13:30
13:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-17:00
Registration
Sub-theme 1
(three oral presentations)
2025/12/7 (Sunday)
Sub-theme 2
(three oral presentations)
Lunch
17:00-17:10
08:30-09:00
Registration
09:00-09:10
Opening remark
09:10-10:00
10:00-10:30
Keynote speech 2: Shigenori Wakabayashi
Sub-theme 1
(three oral presentations)
10:30-12:00
Closing Remarks
12:00-13:30
Sub-theme 1
(three oral presentations)
Sub-theme 2
(three oral presentations)
13:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-17:00
Tea break
Sub-theme 1
(three oral presentations)
Sub-theme 2
(three oral presentations)
Tea break