Keynote speakers

Helen  H. Shen (沈禾玲)，美国爱荷华大学亚洲暨斯拉夫语言文学系教授。现任该系中文部主任、研究生部主任。2012年起担任美国中文教师学会理事，2016 年担任美国中文教师学会会长。主要研究领域为汉语作为第二语言字词习得与阅读教育。在学术杂志上发表实证研究论文数十篇，作为第一作者，出版《汉语字词教学》、《汉语拼音入门》、《汉字部首教程》、《中级汉语泛读教材》等专著及教材。担任Research Among Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language 一书副主编。2005-08获美国教育部国际研究基金开发全球最大的中文阅读网站-- 中文阅读世界http://collections.uiowa.edu/chinese/ 该网站包括初、中、高三级900篇阅读文章，内建形成性和总结性阅读评估系统、阅读反馈报告，及阅读行为数据库。2010 与2016分别获得美国国家安全局星谈基金。2015受Mandarin Institute--Loyola Marymount University星谈基础研究项目负责人邀请主持建设小学 K-5汉语词频数据库 http://www.mandarininstitute.org/node/21

Prof. Dr. Si Fuzhen, professor of linguistics and Chair of the Faculty of Linguistic Sciences at the Beijing Language and Culture University, graduated from BLCU with the Ph.D. degree of linguistics and worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Linguistics and philosophy at MIT, supervised by Professor Noam Chomsky. She has rich working experiences related to linguistics: from 2012 till now, she has been a visiting professor at the sinology department of Vienna University, offering courses of Chinese Linguistics for the graduate students there. From 2010-2011, she was a guest professor in Macau University of Science and Technology.  In the year of 2011, she was a visiting professor at Manchester University. From 2008 to 2010, she was a dean of the School of the Foreign Languages of Yili Normal University, Xinjiang Uygur’s Autonomous Region. Dr. Si has a wide range of research interests and the topics of her publication includes various aspects of generative linguistics, Chinese language and culture, history of the Chomskyan linguistics, bio-linguistics, linguistic philosophy, linguistic methodologies and so on.

Shou-hsin Teng received his post-graduate diploma in education from Oxford University in 1966 and his PhD in linguistics in 1972 from the University of California, Berkeley. Over the next 30 years, he taught Chinese as a second language as well as Chinese linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. During this period, he served as the UMass Dept. chairman, director of Five College Asian Studies Center, president of the American Chinese Language Teachers Association, the editor of its Journal of the CLTA as well as its CLTA Newsletter, a Chinese language testing adviser to the ACTFL. Teng also served for a total of 3 years as the field director of the Inter-University Program in Chinese Language Studies in Taipei (also known as the Stanford Center or IUP, now located at Tsinghua University, Beijing).

Teng early-retired from UMass in order to establish, in 1995, the first ever graduate program in teaching Chinese as a second language at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei. He served as the program chair for 6 years. It now offers both MA and PhD degrees in L2 Chinese. He later established the Taiwan Association of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language and served as its president for 2 terms. Between 1995 and 2009 when he retired from NTNU, he also served a a visiting professor at various institutions including Tunghai University, Fujen Catholic University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Beijing University of Chinese People, Beijing Language and Culture University, Mae Fah Luang as well as the Chulalongkorm University in Thailand. He now teaches at the Chungyuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

Teng’s fields of research includes theoretical syntax while teaching in the US up to 1995, and most of the publications during this period are included in Papers on Modern Chinese Syntax (2005, in Engligh, Crane Publishing Co, Taiwan; and 2010, Chinese translation, Beijing Language University Press). After his return to Taiwan, he concentrated on the development of a pedagogical grammar of L2 Chinese, a field little known to the field at that time. Publications in this area were later included in An L2 Chinese Pedagogical Grammar, 2012, Beijing Language University Press.

In the area of Chinese language textbooks, Teng Shou-hsin published the highly-acclaimed Taiwan Today: an intermediate reader in Chinese. He is also the editor in chief of the on-going project on A Course in Contemporary Chinese, sponsored by the Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University. 4 of its 6 volumes have now been officially published by the Linking Publishing Co. of Taiwan.