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Hua-Li Jian 

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PRESENT POSITION AT NCKU

副教授

Associate Professor

重要學歷

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

英國瑞汀大學語言學博士

英國新堡大學英語教學碩士

  

Ph. D., University of Reading, U.K.  

M.A., University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.

 

專長學門

SPECIALITES
語言學、 語音學、 實驗聲學、實驗音韻學、語音認知、 英語教學、電腦輔助語言教學、世界英語、語言與電影 Research interests: Linguistics, phonetics and phonology, acoustic phonetics, speech perception and machine recognition, TESOL, LSP/ESP (language/English for specific purpose), computer-aided language teaching and learning, variety of English, language and film

榮譽

HONORS

1999國科會甲種研究獎勵

 

1999 Research Award (Class A): National Science Council of Taiwan

 




　

著作(PUBLICATIONS)

1.      JOURNAL PAPERS

 

Experiences of Teaching Engineering Students in Taiwan from a Western Perspective. International Journal of Engineering Education. (Science Citation Index) (forthcoming) 2006.

 

A comparative study of lexical stress placement in the speech of Taiwanese ESL learners and American English. Journal of Humanities and Arts, 19, 79-99. Kaohsiung: National Kaohsiung Normal University. 2005.

 

Speech Rhythm in English of Taiwanese ESL Learners. Journal of Teaching of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, 1, 105-115. 2004.

 

 Pair-wise Variability Index: Evaluating the Cognitive Difficulty of Using Mobile Text Entry Systems. Springer Verlag Lecture Notes on Computer Science, 3160, 347-350. Glasgow: Springer Verlag.  (Science Citation Index Expanded) 2004.

 

Perception of long and short tones in Taiwanese Speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102(5), Pt.2, 3095. 1997.

 

2.      BOOKS

English in Taiwan: Speech Timing and Rhythm of Taiwanese ESL Learners and Its Implications for Language Teaching. Taipei: Taiwan ELT Publishing Co., LTD. 2005.

 

3.      BOOK ARTICLES

Improving the Communicative Competence in Spoken English of Taiwanese Engineering Students: A Prosodic Approach. In Win Aung, et al. (Eds.), INNOVATIONS 2006: World Innovations in Engineering Education and Research. Arlington: Begell House Publishing. (Forthcoming) 2006.

 

Building Good Engineering Vocabulary: Adopting Technical Terminology in Non-English Speaking Countries. In Win Aung, et al. (Eds.), INNOVATIONS 2004: World Innovations in Engineering Education and Research, Chapter 35 (pp. 399-408). Arlington: Begell House Publishing. 2004.

 

 

4.      CONFEERENCE PAPERS

 

An Improved Pair-Wise Variability Index for Comparing the Timing Characteristics of Speech. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2004 (ICSLP), Vol. 2 (pp. 1261-1264). Jeju, Korea. 2004.

 

An Acoustic Study of Speech Rhythm in Taiwan English, Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2004 (ICSLP), Vol. 2 (pp. 1265-1268). Jeju, Korea. 2004.

Simplifying Taiwanese Romanization: Implications for Human Computer Interaction and Text Entry. Proceedings of International Conference on Taiwanese Romanization (pp. 36-1—36-5). Tainan, Taiwan. 2004.

 

 A Personal Learning Tool for Second Language Engineering Vocabulary Acquisition. Proceedings of ICEER 2004 (pp.1167-1176). Czeck Republic. 2004.

 

On the Syllable Timing in Taiwan English. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004 (pp. 243-245). Nara, Japan. 2004.

 

Writing with Wiki – Experiences Teaching English Composition through Web-Assisted Collaboration. Proceedings of APAMALL 2003 and ROCMELIA 2003 (pp. 251-261). Chiayi, Taiwan. 2003.

                                                                       

A Web-based Tool for Assessment of English Vocabulary Acquisition through Internet Reading Activities in Higher Education. International Conference of Distance Education (pp. 93-102). Taipei, Taiwan. 2003.

 

Building Good Engineering Vocabulary: Adopting Technical Terminology in Non-English Speaking Countries. ICEE International Conference on Engineering Education (paper published on CD-ROM & copyrighted by ICEE). Valencia, Spain. 2003.

 

Written Group Assignments – Experiences with Collaborative Web Spaces. Proceedings of the ICEE International Conference on Engineering education (paper 0132). Manchester, United Kingdom. 2002.

 

The Intensity Envelops of Taiwanese Tones and Their Impact on Tone Sandhi.  Proceedings of the First Conference on Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature (CLLL) (pp. 34-43). Tainan, Taiwan. 2001.

 

Quantitative Web-Based Teaching Tools for Progress Management and Evaluation. Proceeding of the ICEE International Conference on Engineering Education (pp. 6E7-1-6E7-6). Oslo, Norway. 2001.

                                                                                         

Teaching Taiwanese Tones in a Multimedia Framework. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of ROCMELIA'99 (pp. 153-157). Kaohsiung, Taiwan. 1999.

 

Taiwanese Tone Sandhi Viewed from an Energy Perspective. Proceedings of the XIVth International Conference of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2387-2390). San Francisco, U.S.A. 1999.

 

Classification of Taiwanese Tones Based on Pitch and Energy Movements. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 2 (pp. 329-332). Sydney, Australia. 1998.

 

Boundaries of Perception of Long Tones in Taiwanese Speech. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 5 (pp. 2167-2170). Sydney, Australia. 1998.

 

Towards Recognition of Taiwanese Tones. Proceedings of the 6th Manchester Postgraduate Linguistics Conference (The PLUM series). Manchester, U.K. 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.      OTHER PUBLICATIONS

The acoustic correlates of rhythm in Taiwan English: Vowel quality as the focus, Research Report for Research Project of the National Science Council 2004-2005.

 

An Investigation into English Timing and Rhythm of Taiwanese ESL Learners, Research Report for Research Project of the National Science Council 2002-2003.

Suprasegmental Properties of Taiwanese Speech and their Role in Human Perception and Recognition by Machine. Dissertation (Doctor of Philosophy) 1999.