We are pleased to welcome the following invited conference and workshop presenters who will bring their expertise as we explore our conference theme of "Beyond a Limited Scope: Chinese for Specific, Academic, and Professional Purposes."
Featured Speakers 演讲者
James Dean (JD) Brown Workshop presenter / Conference keynote speaker James Dean Brown ("JD") is currently Professor of Second Language Studiesat the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He has spoken and taught in many places ranging from Brazil to Venezuela. He has published numerous articles and books on language testing, curriculum design, research methods, and connected speech. His most recent books are: Developing, using, and analyzing rubrics in language assessment with case studies in Asian and Pacific languages (2012 from NFLRC); New ways in teaching connected speech (2012 from TESOL); New ways of classroom assessment, revised (2013 from TESOL); Practical assessment tools for college Japanese (2013 with K. Kondo-Brown & Tominaga from NFLRC); Mixed methods research for TESOL (2014 from Edinburgh University Press); Cambridge guide to research in language teaching and learning (2015 with C. Coombe from Cambridge University Press); Teaching and assessing EIL in local contexts around the world (2015 with S. L. McKay from Routledge); Developing courses in languages for specific purposes (2015 with J. Trace & T. Hudson from NFLRC); Introducing needs analysis and English for specific purposes (2016 from Routledge); and Statistics Corner: Questions and Answers about Language Testing Statistics (2016 from JALT TEVAL).
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Christine Grosse Conference keynote speaker Christine Uber Grosse directs Antiphonale, a language consulting company that she founded in 2016. She is Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at Thunderbird, School of Global Management at Arizona State University. Chris continues to teach as a visiting professor at Aalto University in Finland. Recently, she spent two years in the United Arab Emirates as Director of the Achievement Academy at the American University of Sharjah.
For the past thirty years, Chris’ research projects and books have focused on business languages, culture and communication. Her publications have appeared in over a dozen academic journals. The Modern Language Journal published her national studies on languages for specific purposes, and devoted a focus issue to her and Geoffrey Voght’s article entitled “The Evolution of Languages for Specific Purposes in the US.” In addition to writing, Chris enjoys painting, travel, and spending time with family and friends. |
Chu-Ren Huang
Conference keynote speaker Chu-Ren Huang is a chair professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his PhD in linguistics from Cornell in 1987 and a Docteur Honoris Causa in the humanitties from Aix-Marseille University in 2013. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities and a permanent member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics. Before joining the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to serve as Dean for the Faculty of Humanities for the past 6 years, he was with Academia Sinica in Taiwan for the past 22 years. In Taiwan, he spearheaded the deveopment of corpus and computational linguistics and introduced several new linguistic theories such LFG, GPSG, and HPSG. He also led the construction of language resources such as CKIP Lexicon, Sinica Corpus, Sinica Treebank, Sinica BOW, Chinese WordNet, and Hantology. He is editor in chief of Lingua Sinica, Cambridge Studies in Natural Language Processing, Frontiers in Chinese Linguistis, Studies in East Asian Linguistics, and The Humanities in Asia. He also serves as associate editor for Journal of Chinese Linguistics and Lexicography, as well as editorial board members for other journals in related areas. His publication includes 25 book or edited volumes, over 25 language resources, 83 journal articles, 95 book chapters, and over 440 refereed conference papers. His published books include A Reference Grammar of Chinese (Cambridge), Ontology and the Lexicon (Cambridge), and Mandarin Chinese Words and Parts of Speech: A corpus-based study (Routledge). His upcoming books include Computational Processing of the Chinese Language (Cambridge), Digital Humanties: Bridging the Divide (Springer), Routledge Handbook in Chinese Applied Linguistics, Generative Lexicon Studies in Chinese (Commercial Press, in Chinese), and Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics.
黄居仁现任香港理工大学中文及双语学系讲座教授。他先后获选国际计算语言学委员会(ICCL)终身委员,香港人文学院院士,以及法国Aix-Marseille大学荣誉博士。曾任亚洲词辞典学学会,台湾语言学会,及台湾计算语言学会会长。他1987年取得美国康奈尔大学语言学博士学位后, 在中研院主持或共同主持开发了CKIP词汇库,ICG语法, Sinica Corpus, Sinica BOW, Sinica TreeBank, Chinese WordSketch, Tagged Chinese Gigaword Corpus, Hantology, CWN等资源。现任Lingua Sinica, Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics(语言学前沿), Studies in East Asian Linguistics, Studies in Natural Language Processing, The Humanities in Asia等期刊/丛书主编; Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Lexicography, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 及中文信息学报等之编委。他参与了多个国际学术会议的创立或筹办, 包括 PACLIC, CLSW, ALRW, ACL, COLING, IACL, IJCNLP, IsCLL, OntoLex, LAW, ROCLING等。他的著作包括 170篇以上期刊或专书论文, 25本专书或期刊专号,及440篇以上会议论文。 |
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