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Campus climate: College students' attitude towards homosexuality in Taiwan

title: Campus climate: College students' attitude towards homosexuality in Taiwan abstract: All people should have equal rights. Educators must make sure that everyone is included and is treated fairly. Higher education institutions are considered more liberal and tolerant, yet there are marginalized students, such as those from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. In November 2018, the Taiwanese electorate passed referendums to prevent recognition of same-sex marriages in the Civil Code and to restrict teaching about LGBT issues. We witnessed the heartbreaking results of a referendum on the question, in which a majority of Taiwanese people voted against same-sex marriage. This study is to investigate to understand people's attitudes toward the LGBT community on campus, analyze the attitudinal factors and seek to make the campus environment more LGBT friendly in a College in Taiwan.

Attitudes Toward Homosexuality at a Private College in Taiwan

title: Attitudes Toward Homosexuality at a Private College in Taiwan

馬匹輔助教育中心小志工方案-以充權觀點分析

title: 馬匹輔助教育中心小志工方案-以充權觀點分析

La Possibilité d'une ré-hominisation, un devenir d'humanité ? (Houellebecq)

title: La Possibilité d'une ré-hominisation, un devenir d'humanité ? (Houellebecq)

VR Vanitas: Mortality and Memory in the 21st Century

title: VR Vanitas: Mortality and Memory in the 21st Century

Animal, All too Animal: Incest as Instincts and Violence within Institutions

title: Animal, All too Animal: Incest as Instincts and Violence within Institutions abstract: This paper discusses Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy through the lens of Heidegger and Deleuze. For Heidegger, animality is a life form lower than Dasein and capitivated within instincts. Does the claim that animals cannot die suggest a continuation of life? In a way, the organismic life (organism, organization) is mechanistic, programmed, and technologized. I intend to explore the relationship between life instinct and technology as a mode of unconcealing. How does the revelation of the secrets of a crime parallel the essential secrets of Dasein? To what extent technology responds to the call of an institution? Are instinct and institution operative together underneath the structure of life? In Larsson’s trilogy, the heroine, as a hacker, solves the crime not only through technology but also through intuition and, albeit her anti-social tendency, a kind of institution. At some level, Salander’s Hacker Republic provides an institutional milieu in which instincts develops to set a system of justice. Strangely, sexual violence and social institution can be understood within the same framework. In Desert and Other Texts, Deleuze defines institution as a satisfied instinct. This satisfaction of desire is related to human or animal rights. Can the positive society, the Hacker Republic, also do violence to humanism, and hence problematize the distinction between institutions of the law and institutions of desire? For Larsson’s criminals, evolution theories are intertwined with their sexual crimes. The victims’ survival, seen as the survival of a species, has predicated upon the will to existence, which, I should say, is a struggle of our instincts, intuition, and institutions.

The Collapse of the Soviet Century: Cinema's Finite Look into the Infinite

title: The Collapse of the Soviet Century: Cinema's Finite Look into the Infinite abstract: 2017 is the centenary of the Soviet Revolution. It is also the speculative year in which Alexei German Jr.’s 2015 film, Under Electric Clouds, is set. German’s film, like good science fiction, reflects on the present and recent past. This paper connects German’s film to others from the former USSR that appeared in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, notably Kira Muratova’s The Asthenic Syndrome (1990), Artur Aristakisyan’s Palms (1994), and Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark (2002). Linking these films is the withdrawal of vision into blindness, where ‘vision’ is presented in both senses: as plain sight and as teleology, that conceptual idea of the progress of history. The writing of history, howevercontentiously, offers the retrospective representation of past events. Cinema operates in the present tense, excepting historical recreation as a costume pageant which follows the re-writing of history as literature. Cinema of its time forms the artefacts of history, the manner of looking, or representing, at a moment in time. What these films demonstrate is the persistent obscuring of vision, where vision is torn away from the signifying criteria of language and politics, leaving only the persistence of looking. German’s film reiterates that continued withdrawal of vision amid the drastic reshaping of the former Soviet Bloc. As the iconography of the most teleological of political systems is gradually erased, its symbols nothing but fleeting, finite entities, German’s cinema maintains a relentless gaze into a future history that is both infinite and blind.

PARENTHETICAL – A SPECIAL TYPE OF PROSODIC REDUCTION IN CONTINUOUS SPEECH

title: PARENTHETICAL – A SPECIAL TYPE OF PROSODIC REDUCTION IN CONTINUOUS SPEECH

The Illusions of Love in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness

title: The Illusions of Love in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness

Co-reading picture books with indigenous children

title: Co-reading picture books with indigenous children

Studies on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Learners’ Writing Experiences

title: Studies on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Learners’ Writing Experiences

Same but Different: A Flexible Cultural Capital Conversion Perspective on Asian American English Teachers in Taiwan

title: Same but Different: A Flexible Cultural Capital Conversion Perspective on Asian American English Teachers in Taiwan

Centre, périphérie et normes : la littérature française que l’on enseigne à Taïwan

title: Centre, périphérie et normes : la littérature française que l’on enseigne à Taïwan abstract: Dans les facultés taiwanaises, les figures représentatives de la littératrue française sont toujours les écrivains classiques tels que Balzac, Flaubert, Hugo, Stendhal, Zola ou Maupassant. Des écrivains méconnus ou mal famés comme F. Céline, J. Genet ou plus récemment M. Houellebecq montent rarement ou jamais dans le palmarès. Pour nous, il s’agit d’un certain complexe de marginalité, à savoir d’autres relations possibles entre le centre et la périphérie. Cet article se propose donc d’examiner ces relations asymmétriques au sein même de la littérature française à Taïwan, à travers le cas spécial de Houellebecq dont les oeuvres (ou la critique des oeuvres) sont teintées d’une certaine idéologie. Et puisque nous devons souvent recourir à des traductions, nous utiliserons comme point de départ les considérations des « normes préliminaires » identifiées par Gideon Toury pour montrer comment cette littérature française est choisie, promue et traduite sur les campus ou le marché du livre taiwanais.

Le domaine de la traduction est illimité : le sursis ou la survie du Condamné de Victor Hugo

title: Le domaine de la traduction est illimité : le sursis ou la survie du Condamné de Victor Hugo

Exploring Hakka culture and ethnic relationships through the Baoshan Reservoir protest event

title: Exploring Hakka culture and ethnic relationships through the Baoshan Reservoir protest event abstract: The Baoshan (first) Reservoir was constructed in 1981, to fulfill the need of the Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park and to underpin socioeconomic development in Hsinchu area. However, when the reservoir was built, the process of land expropriation was not as smooth as the residence expected. While the land over one meter of the reservoir was not counted into the expropriation area, 300 residents was not satisfied with the mode of handling and have kept protesting it for more than thirty years. The majority residents of this area are Hakka people, who migrated to Boshan, Hsinchu area for more than three hundred years. Being suffered from the conflicts in between the Min people and Hakka people, pluc with the indigenous people historically, the ethnic group finally settled in Hsinchu, and took Taiwan as their hometown. After the ethnic consciousness rose in 1980s in Taiwan, the Hakka ethnic group has started to gone through a series of social movements. The Hakka mostly live in the hills or margined in the edge of the city, they got easily impacted by the urban development and forced to take the side-effect of the development, such as pollution or land expropriation. The Baoshan First Reservoir event was one of these cases. This study, thus, aims to explore the cultural impact that may happen in the process of protesting the land expropriation and how residents perceive themselves regarding the ethnic identity and the relationships with other ethnic groups.

Sound of BiHou: Perceptions and Reflection of Music and English Learning from an indigenous tribal school

title: Sound of BiHou: Perceptions and Reflection of Music and English Learning from an indigenous tribal school

Implementing Critical Literacy into College EFL class

title: Implementing Critical Literacy into College EFL class

Influences of Co-teaching on elementary students’ learning in Taiwan

title: Influences of Co-teaching on elementary students’ learning in Taiwan

A critical participatory action research of EFL teaching and learning in indigenous primary schools: A preliminary report of the pilot study

title: A critical participatory action research of EFL teaching and learning in indigenous primary schools: A preliminary report of the pilot study abstract: This study aims to use critical participatory action research as a tool to work with English teachers in indigenous villages in Taiwan to explore the current English teaching and learning situation and needs in the tribes and hope to find ways to make positive changes.

‘Female Trouble’ in Wendy Wasserstein’s Plays

title: ‘Female Trouble’ in Wendy Wasserstein’s Plays

Baudelaire and Houellebecq: A Romantic Cemetery and an Apocalyptic Utopia

title: Baudelaire and Houellebecq: A Romantic Cemetery and an Apocalyptic Utopia abstract: The term ‘cemetery’ in Romanticism is often used to explore the feelings associated with mourning and death, a stark reminder of the human condition if we follow the idea of Novalis that death is the romantic principle of life. However, Baudelaire may hold a different view of the term. In his poems, the term ‘cemetery’ evokes not only an anxious and pessimistic vision, but a posthumous life to which the poet is doomed, a conviction (condemnation) to live. For Romantic poets like Baudelaire or Novalis, literature stands for a spiritual quest and elevation, a transcendental position to which the contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq’s view of literature runs counter. In the end of his science fiction The Possibility of an Island (2005), he builds a post-apocalyptic cemetery where the Earth is beset by a series of manmade and natural disasters. Unlike Baudelaire, who opposes esthetics and reality, Houellebecq seems to delicately and concretely transfer Romantic poetic ideals to the real world in a social science fiction which speculates about human behaviors and interactions. How is it possible that with his scientific and technic attempts, the world could be utopian? And how could we call Houellebecq a Romantic writer, the self-called descendant of Baudelaire? This is also a topic of discussion in this paper.

Senior students' reflections on English-medium instruction and junior abroad experiences

title: Senior students' reflections on English-medium instruction and junior abroad experiences abstract: Since “study abroad program” is one major mission for higher education, the issues concerning teaching and learning of English (Amuzie and Winke, 2009; Chen, 2008; Doiz, et al., 2011; Krajewski, 2011; Segalowitz and Freed, 2004), instruction and the curriculum design (Coleman, 2006; Dalton-Puffer, 2008; Kim et al., 2009; Martyniuk, 2008), teachers’ perspectives or/and students’ reflection (Huang, 2012; Tung, et al.,1997; Vande Berg, 2007; Yang,et al., 2011) or the cross-cultural communication (Anderson, et al., 2006; Doiz et al., 2011; Fantini, 2000; Krajewski, 2011; Lenburg et al., 1995; Rew et al., 2003) are often discussed. Nevertheless, research focusing on exploring the relationship in between English instruction and study abroad that content both language and cultural experiences is spare. A “Junior Abroad Program” has been implemented in Tamkang University Lanyang Campus since 2007. Students from all the four disciplines of the campus are required to study abroad for one year in their junior year. Since the four disciplines have different content foci, there are doubts on the teaching and learning the content knowledge through English-medium instructions in and outside of the institution. It is my intention to understand students’ perceptions and reflections towards their on campus training of preparing them to face the challenges of study abroad, especially with the support of “English Medium Instruction” program. I would like to invites senior students to share and reflect their experiences of learning the language and cultures. This study, thus, aims to explore senior students’ reflections on English-medium instruction and junior abroad experiences. As EMI is implemented in all courses on this campus, how students connect their learning experiences with the EMI program will be discussed.

College EFL students’ reflections towards process writing

title: College EFL students’ reflections towards process writing

Space, Gender, and Identity in Wendy Wasserstein's Plays

title: Space, Gender, and Identity in Wendy Wasserstein's Plays

Engendered Politics: getting to know Congress members from the tabloid coverage in Taiwan

title: Engendered Politics: getting to know Congress members from the tabloid coverage in Taiwan

Engendered Politics: getting to know Congress members from the tabloid coverage in Taiwan

title: Engendered Politics: getting to know Congress members from the tabloid coverage in Taiwan

Children's early sensitivity of status as a factor of politeness

title: Children's early sensitivity of status as a factor of politeness abstract: Assuming that politeness is subject to social distance, social status, and ranking as proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987), this study discusses children’s pragmatic development of politeness by examining children’s sensitivity of status, when performing an FTA (Brown & Levinson, 1987). The examination and discussion are based on spontaneous interaction between two Mandarin-speaking children (observed longitudinally from 24 to 36 months old) and their parents. Children’s requests were examined for their politeness (237 instances of requests found in the data), including the situations wherein the requests are issued, the linguistic devices utilized by the children to convey requests, and the effectiveness of requests (whether the children’s requests obtain the desired compliance). The focus of this study is on the potential influence of interpersonal status on children’s production of requests. It has been found that children appear to fine-tune the linguistic forms they use to make requests with respect to the relative status between their parents and themselves. They were found inclined to use more direct request forms, for example, imperatives, when making requests in cooperative activities, where the relative status between the children and their parents is equivalent. On the other hand, children were found to use comparatively more indirect request forms, for example, declaratives with the lexeme WANT, when requesting at a lower status in unstructured activities, where the children mostly request their parents to perform an act as their original role, i.e., a child. A further examination thus reveals that the sensitivity of status in children's polite requests may aid children in obtaining the intended compliance. That is to say, the effectiveness of the children’s requests appear to increase when children are requesting according to the relative status between their parents and themselves. This study therefore suggests that children at an early age may have been aware of the effect of status on politeness and that status may be a significant factor in politeness, probably more significant than the other two in Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory, particularly for Mandarin-speaking children.

Chinese-speaking children’s early strategic use of social deixis

title: Chinese-speaking children’s early strategic use of social deixis abstract: 1. Introduction For children to be competent language users and use appropriate language in interaction, it is inevitable that they develop knowledge of linguistic politeness and become a socialized member of the society. In Mandarin Chinese, one aspect of linguistic politeness is the proper use of social deixis, such as address terms or other honorific titles, in addition to the use of appropriate syntactic redress (Brown & Levinson, 1987, Ervin-Tripp, Guo, Lampert, 1990; Pan, 2011). According to Ervin-Tripp et al. (1990), social deixis refers to linguistic devices that ‘allude to an existing relationship or status (p. 314).’ Following this definition, when a Mandarin-speaking child uses mama ‘mother’ to address his/her mother, such an address term is thus considered an example of social deixis. Other examples include some lexical devices, such as qing ‘please’, bang ‘to help’, and mafan ‘please’. Therefore, it is essential that Mandarin-speaking children develop the appropriate uses of social deixis so as to perform good linguistic politeness in interaction. 2. Methodology To examine children’s development and awareness in this respect, spontaneous conversationns between two children and their mothers were collected longitudinally from the age of two to the age of three. Following Ervin-Tripp et al.’s study, conversations observed at three time points were investigated for social deixis: Time 1 (from 2;0 to 2;1), Time 2 (from 2;6 to 2;7), and Time 3 (3;0), in order to find some potential developmental trend in this respect. These conversations were transcribed and coded in CHAT format by two trained research assistants (MacWhinney, 2000). In totally, 237 cases of requests were found in the sampled data. The agreement between the two coders is about 84% on the Cohen’s kappa scale. 3. Results It is found that the children seldom use social deixis when making requests to their mothers in family settings, as shown in Table 1 below. Despite the rarity of their uses of social deixis, an in-depth analysis reveals that children appear to utilize social deixis strategically. When the children are at a lower status, as a less powerful person in interaction, they may mitigate their requests by using a social deixis, including address terms, generally mama ‘mother’ or baba ‘father’, and switch of person, for example, using the first person plural pronoun women ‘we’, instead of the second person singular pronoun ni ‘you’, to refer to the addressee. In addition, these mitigated requests seem to occur generally when the ongoing interaction may get interrupted because of the requests, for example, when the children desire to switch topics or to change the ongoing activity. Moreover, the children seem to use address terms at an earlier age and then they develop the use of switch of person to mitigate their requests at a later age. All in all, the few occurrences of social deixis may mean that in parent-child conversations in the family setting, the deference to politeness may be limitedly required (Pan, 2011). Despite the limited requirement, children may nonetheless develop the ability to appropriately and strategically use social deixis in interaction. It is likely that these strategic uses of social deixis may to some extent disclose children’s early awareness of linguistic politeness.

A Study of Black Feminism in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

title: A Study of Black Feminism in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

Wendy Wasserstein's Critique of Postfeminism in Her Plays

title: Wendy Wasserstein's Critique of Postfeminism in Her Plays

Wendy Wasserstein's Critique of Feminism in Her Plays: A Quest for Gender Identity in the Postfeminist Era

title: Wendy Wasserstein's Critique of Feminism in Her Plays: A Quest for Gender Identity in the Postfeminist Era

Negotiating a Way Out of Nowhere: The Voice of Asian and Asian North American Women in Christian Education

title: Negotiating a Way Out of Nowhere: The Voice of Asian and Asian North American Women in Christian Education

Adult Religious Education for Whom: Asian and Asian North American Women Theological Educators Teaching in a While-dominated Environment

title: Adult Religious Education for Whom: Asian and Asian North American Women Theological Educators Teaching in a While-dominated Environment

Adult Religious Education for Whom? Asian and North Asian Women Theological Educators Teaching in a White-Dominated Environment

title: Adult Religious Education for Whom? Asian and North Asian Women Theological Educators Teaching in a White-Dominated Environment abstract: While much has been written on feminist pedagogical issues, there has been a critical lack of research on the complex and multilayered power dynamics in the classroom when the teacher is an Asian or Asian North American woman. The complexity is a result of her multiple subject positions in the theological classroom: as a teacher, a theologian, she has some authority over the students, but as a racial minority woman, she is marginalized by the White mainstream. Ways of knowing imply ways of teaching. Therefore, this presentation will focus on the salient characteristics that might emerge at the intersection of gender and race in the context of theological education, in a course prepared by an Asian and Asian North American woman instructor for a class that is predominantly non-Asian/Asian North American.

How Asian/Asian North American Women Theological Educators Negotiate Power Dynamics

title: How Asian/Asian North American Women Theological Educators Negotiate Power Dynamics

How Asian/Asian North American Women Theological Educators Negotiate Power Dynamics

title: How Asian/Asian North American Women Theological Educators Negotiate Power Dynamics

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) As a Teaching Method in Multicultural Studies Curriculum

title: Problem-Based Learning (PBL) As a Teaching Method in Multicultural Studies Curriculum

Asian/Asian North American Women Theological Educators Teaching in White-dominated Classrooms

title: Asian/Asian North American Women Theological Educators Teaching in White-dominated Classrooms

How Positionality of Students Influences the Learning by the “Junior Year Abroad Program” at Tamkang University, Taiwan

title: How Positionality of Students Influences the Learning by the “Junior Year Abroad Program” at Tamkang University, Taiwan

性別與族群認同對女性原住民立委代表行為的影響

title: 性別與族群認同對女性原住民立委代表行為的影響