Welcome to our home page. Currently, Howard Chen is teaching at the Department English,   National Taiwan Normal University. 

LLRC: language learning resources center

ET&T at VLC: English teachers and technologies

Courses offered 1999, Spring.
1. WWW and English Learning
2. English Writing
3. Freshman English

Projects I am running now:
1. Virtual Language Learning Environment: eventually A multimedia virtual language learning center:

1. Technology and Language Learning
2. Peter yang's page
3. David Herren
4. Godwin-Jones
5. Wong
6. IT journal
7. Yang at Tsing-Hua
8. NTU
9. NSYSU

2. Second Language Learning and Learner Corpus
3. SLA issues and topics: currently second language vocabulary.
　

• CNN News
• Chinatimes
• TVBS Taiwan
• PC week news
• NEW York Times
• CNN FIANCE
• Microsoft Home
• United Daily

Research Interests:

Applied Linguistics

• Cathy BALL
• Corpus linguistics
• Second Language Acquisition: (language learning, SSLA, SLR, System,Applied linguistics, Applied psycholinguistics, IRAL, TESOL Quarterly, World Englishes, MLJ, RELC journal, J of pragmatics, English Today)
• Sociolinguistics
• International EFL learners' project/Learners' corpora project
  Computer Assisted language Learning
• CALL-writing and internet
• AGORA MARKET PLACE
• Transparent Language
• EUROCALL
• CALICO, CALL,
• Berkeley, Jim Duber
• Britain CALL Library
• Higgins
• Yamada Language Center
• Authoring Page
• Flame Project
• ON-CALL SITE
• Corpus and Humanity
• ICAME

Some useful Resources:

• FINWEB HOMEPAGE
• Personal Fiance
• Top Internet Sites
• ALL BOOKS: The Amazone Site.

Howard's Research Directions:

0. Conferene List and Database

1. Corpus LX: Michael Barlow, Cathy Ball , check the pages below.

2. Chinese Lx: Ohio State University Site.

3. CALL: David Herren, Jim Duber, Multimedia on the WWW.

4. InterLanguage pragmatics: Kasper and Blum-Kulka

5. Vocabulary Learning: Pual Nation and Pual Meara

6. Second Language Acquisition:

• 1. Consciousness. Schmidt
• 2. Learning conditions and attentional allocation. Schmidt
• 3. Age. How does age of onset of SLA affect the rate, route, and level of ultimate attainment in the L2? Long
• 4. Modules and mechanisms. White
• 5. Interaction and the environment. Long, Pica
• 6. Automaticity and control. Bialystok, McLaughlin.
• 7. Literacy and skill development.
• 8. Individual differences and cognitive variables.: Oxford
• 9. Motivation, anxiety, personality and affective variables. Horwitz
• 10. Interlanguage pragmatics. Kasper and Blum-Kulka