APEC Learning Standards for English and Other Languages

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2007/HRDWG/SEM1/001

Program

Submitted by: Chinese Taipei

Seminar on Standards for English

and Other Foreign Languages

in APEC Economies

Venue[unless otherwise noted]: MingChuanUniversity, Taipei Campus Sun Yat Sen Auditorium

Monday, December 3, 2007

18.00-20.00 Welcome Dinner [Ambassador Hotel 2F, Union Rooms 1-2-3]

Ministry of Education Director General of BICER

Dr. Chin-sheng Chang

MingChuanUniversity President, Dr. Chuan Lee

Tuesday, December 4

08.30-08.45Opening Ceremony

Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Mu-lin Lu

MingChuanUniversity President, Dr. Chuan Lee

08.45-09.45 Research Presentation 1

The Common European Framework of Reference: a Developing Standard
Dr. Gary Buck, USA

09.45-10.45Research Presentation 2

One Ruler, Many Tests: A Primer on Test Equating

Dr. Mark Moulton, USA

10.45-11.00 Coffee/Tea Break

11.00-12.15Case Studies 1: Learning Standards in Practice

New Zealand: Dr. Rosanne Parsons

New Zealand’s Story: The Three-Step Approach to Setting Standards for Languages

Thailand: Dr. Arunee Wiriyachitra

English Learning Standards for ThaiUniversity Students: From Policy to Practice

Korea: Dr. Sunhee Choi

Standards for Language Teachers in Korea

12.15-12.30 MCU Language Labs 1 [E703]

12.30-13.30Lunch [MingChuanUniversity Food Service, 3F]

13.30-18.00Field Trip: Pedagogical Support for all Learners

[Wu-LingSenior High School]

Wednesday, December 5

08.30-09.30 Research Presentation 3

Standards in the Context of Teacher Accreditation

Dr. David Ingram, Australia

09.30-10.30Research Presentation 4

What Knowledge and Skills do Teachers of English in Hong Kong Need? Some Conceptual and Practical Issues in English Teacher Benchmark Assessment

Dr. Angel Lin, Hong Kong-China

10.30-10.45 Coffee/Tea Break

10.45-12.30 Case Studies 2: Teachers’ Accreditation in Practice

Indonesia: Ms. Asri Widiapsari

Let’s Do It Together: A Pilot Project of English Teacher Empowerment through e-Learning in Malang

Viet Nam: Mr. Nguyen Duc Toan

English and other language learning and teaching in Vietnam: status and the way forward

Thailand: Dr. Jirada Wudthayagorn

Development of the English Standardized Test for Thai Teachers

Chinese Taipei: Dr. Byron Gong

A Critical Study of Evaluation Standards for

English Programs at SoochowUniversity

12.30-13.45Lunch [MingChuanUniversity Food Service, 3F]

13.45-14.00 MCU Language Labs 2 [F613/4]

14.00-14.15APEC EDNET Knowledge Bank “wiki” presentation

Dr. Douglas Cochrane, USA

14:15-15:30Collaborative Group Discussions: Developing and Applying Standards

15.30-16.00 Coffee/Tea Break

16.00-17.00 Conclusions by Researchers

Dr. Angel Lin, Dr. David Ingram, Dr. Gary Buck, Dr. Mark Moulton

17:00-17:05Closing Remarks

Ministry of Education Cultural Counsellor Dr. Tony Lin

18.00-20.00 Farewell Dinner [Grand Formosa Regent 3F, Lan Ting]

Ministry of Education Cultural Counsellor Dr. Tony Lin

MingChuanUniversity President, Dr. Chuan Lee

Keynote Research Speakers

Dr. Gary Buck, currently Director of the Testing and Certification Division, of the ELI, at the University of Michigan, is an applied linguist with a strong assessment background. His career in second language education began with ten years of teaching experience in Japan. At the University of Lancaster, his Ph.D. research focused on the testing of second language listening comprehension; his subsequent book Assessing Listening Comprehension is the standard reference on this topic. Dr. Buckhas been active in research and direction of testing programs for the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Defense Language Institute. He has published extensively on assessment related issues, and been honored by TOEFL and ILTA for his contributions to the research literature in this area.

Dr. Mark Moulton is a psychometrics researcher at Educational Data Systems in the USA. A graduate of the "Chicago school" of Psychometrics, Dr. Moulton hasapplied Rasch models to fields as diverse as program evaluation, economic forecasting, audio perception, and educational testing. For four years, he has served as a principal designer and psychometrician for the California Reading First evaluation and is familiar with the issues surrounding the measurement of elementary school English Language acquisition. His special expertise is in the area of multidimensional IRT models, having applied his own multidimensional software, NOUS, to the problem of equating local assessments.

Dr. Angel M. Y. Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Communicationat the City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Lin has conducted research for SCOLAR (Standing Committee on Language Education and Research, Hong Kong SAR Government) on monitoring and evaluating Hong Kong’s Native English Teacher (NET) scheme and has designed and written English curriculum materials for newly arrived children (NAC) in primary schools in Hong Kong.She received her Ph.D. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada in 1996. Since then she has been on the cutting-edge of research in sociocultural theories of language communication and education, new media communication studies, critical discourse analysis and language planning in postcolonial contexts. She is the first Hong Kong scholar to work on developing inter-disciplinary approaches to second language education through drawing on cultural studies, multi-literacies theories, and language and identity research in developing innovative language teaching methodologies. She is the first Asia-based scholar elected as Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and has served on the editorial boards of TESOL Quarterly, Linguistics and Education, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, and Pedagogies and-International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism.

Professor David Ingram is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the University of Melbourne and Director of a private language centre in Brisbane, Australia. He also co-directs his language testing organisation, ISLPR Language Services. Previously he taught in Primary and Secondary Schools 14 years, in teacher education (14 years), before founding threeuniversity language centres from 1986 to 2003 in GriffithUniversity, after which he became Executive Dean of Melbourne University Private’s School of Applied Language Studies and a Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne. He has extensive experience in consultancies in second language education and has published extensively, especially in the areas of language policy, curriculum design, methodology, and language testing. He was one of the developers of the IELTS Test and was IELTS Chief Examiner (Australia) for 10 years. He is the co-author of the International Second Language Proficiency Ratings (ISLPR). In 2003, he was appointed a member of the Order of Australia for service to education through the development of language policy, through assessment procedures for evaluation of proficiency, and through research and teaching.