2007 Multi Development and Application of Language and Linguistics Tentative Schedule (05/02/2007) May 31 (Thursday) 8:30-9:00 Registration (Hsiu-chi Building 2F) 9:00-9:10 Opening (Hsiu-chi Building, Hsiu-chi Hall at B1) Chair: Dr. Kailing Liu 9:00-9:10 (Chair of Foreign Languages & Literature Dept. (FLLD, NCKU) Guest: Dr. Ming-zhao Lai 9:10-10:10 Keynote speech (President of National Cheng Kung University) (Hsiu-chi Building, Hsiu-chi Hall at B1) Chair: Dr. Kailing Liu (Chair of FLLD., NCKU) Dr. Shigeru Sakahara (Professor, University of Tokyo) Dynamism of Category Reorganization in Tautology 10:10-10:30 Tea Break 10:30-12:00 Session A (Hsiu-chi Building 4F) Session A1: Learning Models, Strategies, and Styles Room: 26425 Chair: 鍾榮富教授 (南台科技大學應用英語系) Prof. Raung-fu Chung (Southern Taiwan University) 10:30-11:00 Chu-hsia Wu (National Cheng Kung University) Connectionist Models of Language Learning 11:00-11:30 Joyce Hsu (Providence University) The Relationship among Students’ Learning Styles, Learning Strategies and English Achievement in Elementary Level in Taiwan 11:30-12:00 Hsin-Mei Lin (Indiana University, USA) Language Learning Strategies and Language Proficiency: A Case Study of Two Taiwanese Graduate Students at a Western University Session A2: Teaching Methods Room: 26402 Chair: 陳淑嬌 主任 (國立嘉義大學外文系) Prof. Su-chiao Chen (National Chayi University)Lunch Break 10:30-11:00 Ya-Chin Tsai (National Chiayi University) Task-based or traditional?: Approaches to teaching Spanish as a second language 11:00-11:30 Chen-Cheng Chun (National Taitung University) The Power Relationship and Students’ Voices in the Peer-led Group Discussions at Elementary School in Taiwan 11:30-12:00 Yang XiaoDong (韓國忠南國立大學, Korea) 從本科階段專業課雙語教學的實施看大學英語教學的改革 12:00-13:30 Lunch Break 13:30-15:00 Session B (Hsiu-chi Building 4F) Session B1: Phonology Room: 26425 Chair: 黃大夫主任 (南台科技大學應用英語系) Prof. Da-Fu Huang (Southern Taiwan University) 13:30-14:00 Shu-chen Ou (National University of Kaohsiung) The Sonority-Weight Mapping in L2 English stress acquisition by L1 Chinese speakers: L1 transfer or phonological universals? 14:00-14:30 Bei-wu Wang (National Kaohsiung Normal University) Grandma's Handsome Christmas Handkerchief 14:30-15:00 Hsiuhsu Lin (Chaoyang University of Technology) Metathesis in Bunun: Evidence from Isbukun Session B2: Language Acquisition Room: 26402 Chair: 王萸芳 教授 (國立高雄師範大學華語文教學研究所) Prof. Yu-Fang Wang (National Kaohsiung Normal University) 13:30-14:00 Hui-Tzu Min (National Cheng Kung University) Bilingual Children’s Communication Ability: A Case Study 14:00-14:30 Hsinyi Ashley Lin (National Taiwan University) Contexts, Perspectives, and Children’s Use of Classifiers 14:30-15:00 Ana Isabel Mota (Universiade do Porto) The Book and the Baby: the baby book in language acquisition 15:00-15:30 Tea Break 15:30-17:00 Session C (Hsiu-chi Building 4F) Session C1: Sociolinguistics Room: 26425 Chair: 張玉玲 教授 (高雄師範大學英語系) Prof. Ye-ling Chang (National Kaohsiung Normal University) 15:30-16:00 Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu (San Diego State University, USA) Facework in Contemporary Chinese Societies: A Discourse-based Study of Self-Denigration and Self-Enhancement in Mandarin 16:00-16:30 Ben Pin-Yun Wang (National Taiwan University) A Survey of the Undergraduates’ Attitudes Towards English Mixing in Taiwan’s Mandarin Pop 16:30-17:00 Su-chiao Chen (National Chiayi University) Language Maintenance and Shift among the "Vietnamese Brides" and their children in Taiwan Session C2: Discourse Chair: 廖美玲 主任 (台中教育大學英語系) Prof. Meei-Ling Liaw (National Taichung University) Room: 26402 15:30-16:00 Mei-hui Tsai (National Cheng Kung University) Open question in medical interviews: a quantitative approach to its distribution patterns in the Taiwanese context 16:00-16:30 Yi-Rung Chen (National Taiwan Normal University) The Distal Demonstrative “Nage” in Mandarin Spoken Discourse: Discourse-Pragmatic Functions and Grammaticalization 16:30-17:00 Yu-Fang Wang and Meng-Ying Lin (National Kaohsiung Normal University) Displaying Affiliation and Disaffliliation: The Discourse-Pragmatic Functions of Dui and Hao in Taiwan Mandarin Conversation 18:00-20:00 Dinner Reception June 1 (Friday) 8:30-10:30 Keynote speech (Hsiu-chi building, Hsiu-chi Hall at B1) Chair: Prof. Jenn-yeu Chen (Dean and Professor, College of Social Sciences) 8:30-9:30 Dr. Ovid J. L. Tzeng (Fellow Academician, Academia Sinica) Timed Picture Naming in Eight Different Languages: Linguistic Universality versus Linguistic Specificity 9:30-10:30 Dr. Ken Machida (Professor and Dean, College of humanities, Nagoya University) Arbitrariness and the Syntax of Signs 10:30-11:00 Tea Break 11:00-12:30 Session D (Hsiu-chi Building 4F) Session D1: Syntax Room: 26425 Chair: 魏美瑤 主任 (東吳大學英文系) Prof. Jennifer M. Wei (Soochow University) 11:00-11:30 Huichi Lee (National Cheng Kung University) Movement for Focus Agreement and Case Assignment 11:30-12:00 Yi-An Lin (University of Cambridge) DE Construction in Chinese Nominal Expressions Session D2: Semantics Room: 26402 Chair: 沈添鉦 教授 (致遠管理學院應用英語系) Prof. Tian-zheng Shen (Diwan University) 11:00-11:30 Shu-Jean Wang (National Chi Nan University) Analyzing and Investigating Polysemy: the Case of Pao in Chinese 11:30-12:00 Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh & Elena Kolodkina (National Cheng Kung University) Body-part Expressions in Chinese, Russian and English Corpora: A Cognitive Semantic Application 12:00-12:30 Oliver Streiter (National University of Kaohsiung) The Potential Contribution of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Linguistic Research 12:30-13:30 Lunch Break 13:30-14:30 (Hsiu-chi Building 5F) 14:30-16:00 Session E (Hsiu-chi Building 4F) Poster Session Session E1: Communication Room: 26425 Chair: 蘇碧瓊 主任 (高雄師範大學英語系) Prof. Pi-chong Su (National Kaohsiung Normal University) 14:30-15:00 Mok Sui-Sang ( The Open University of Hong Kong) How relevant is relevance in academic writing to the relevance theory of communication? 15:00-15:30 Paroo Nihalani (Universiti Brunei Darussalam) English Language & Global Communication: Dilemma of National Identity vs. International Intelligibility 15:30-16:00 Ornuma Tisapramotkul (Chulalongkorn University) Generic Variability in English Recruitment Advertisements of Thai and British Newspapers Session E2: Learning Room: 26402 Chair: 黃秀霞 主任 (中華大學外文系) Prof. Hazel Hung (Chung Hua University) 14:30-15:00 Yen-yu Lin (National Tsing Hua University) “Empower My Voice”: New Insight into the Relationship between Learning styles and Multimedia L2 Writing in the Blog Setting 15:00-15:30 Jiang Lin (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) The referential/quantified asymmetry in second language acquisition of English reflexives by advanced proficiency Chinese-speaking learners 15:30-16:00 Kelly Huang(Providence University) A Case Study of Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Reflection at University 16:00 -- Closing