Wen-Li Tsou
Biographic Data
| ID | 5436007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wen-Li Tsou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wen-Li |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsou |
| SIGNATURE | TSOU W |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Cheng Kung University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4726-6255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Working in the gap
Technology-mediated online EMI professional development
The growing adoption of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) presents significant challenges for faculty in non-native English-speaking contexts. This study investigates how faculty self-efficacy and teaching practices developed within a 36-h technology-mediated professional development program framed by the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework. The program systematically integrated technologies across CoI dimensions: AI applications enhanced…
Leveraging ESP teachers’ roles
Co-journeying with ChatGPT in tertiary education
This paper responds to the prevalent discourse on the 'lack of English proficiency' among EMI teachers in contexts where English is used as an additional language. It explores how AI-powered tools, particularly ChatGPT, enable EMI teachers in Taiwan to leverage their expertise and teach in English with more confidence. This study first describes the training of an EMI PD programme. Then it reports on the challenges and strategies, and the extende…
Glocalization in CLIL
Glocalization is the local adaptation of global trends, and though it has been extensively studied in other fields, there has been a lower emphasis on it in pedagogy. Glocalization is especially relevant in education given that pedagogical approaches to language learning such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as a Lingua franca (ELF) have gained global popularity. The current paper examines beliefs, attitudes, and tra…
Interactive learning for professional development of bilingual education by a blended instructional approach
The aim of this study was to implement an approach of blended instruction for in-service bilingual teacher-training program to investigate its feasibility based on the perceptions of the participants regarding their familiarity with bilingual education and their satisfaction with the integration of technological tools used in the blended instruction. The framework of this study focused on three characteristics of blended instruction including cle…
Policy and Politics in Global Primary EnglishJanetEnever. Oxford, England
The Application of Readers Theater to FLES (Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools) Reading and Writing
Improving Speaking Skills Through Instruction in Oral Classroom Participation
Studies in language learning have addressed the necessity of classroom interaction or students' oral participation in class. However, getting students to respond in a language classroom—especially a foreign language class—is a problem that most language teachers face. This article suggests remedies to language learners' reticence, using Taiwanese students as participants. Instruction about classroom participation was provided to students in the e…
Glocalized rhetoric practices on medical writing
Facing a rapidly changing global environment, educators around the world have argued for a need to incorporate a global perspective in local educational policy making. The present study undertakes such a glocal project examining medical writing of international physicians and Taiwanese interns. In this study, the Corpus of English for Medical Purpose (CEMP) has been created. There are 50 experts’ (49,655 words) and 50 students’ (9,829 words) medi…
Glocalization in CLIL
Glocalization is the local adaptation of global trends, and though it has been extensively studied in other fields, there has been a lower emphasis on it in pedagogy. Glocalization is especially relevant in education given that pedagogical approaches to language learning such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as a Lingua franca (ELF) have gained global popularity. The current paper examines beliefs, attitudes, and tra…
Co-journeying with ChatGPT in tertiary education
This paper responds to the prevalent discourse on the 'lack of English proficiency' among EMI teachers in contexts where English is used as an additional language. It explores how AI-powered tools, particularly ChatGPT, enable EMI teachers in Taiwan to leverage their expertise and teach in English with more confidence. This study first describes the training of an EMI PD programme. Then it reports on the challenges and strategies, and the extende…
The Application of Readers Theater to FLES (Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools) Reading and Writing
Improving Speaking Skills Through Instruction in Oral Classroom Participation
Studies in language learning have addressed the necessity of classroom interaction or students' oral participation in class. However, getting students to respond in a language classroom—especially a foreign language class—is a problem that most language teachers face. This article suggests remedies to language learners' reticence, using Taiwanese students as participants. Instruction about classroom participation was provided to students in the e…
Glocalized rhetoric practices on medical writing
Facing a rapidly changing global environment, educators around the world have argued for a need to incorporate a global perspective in local educational policy making. The present study undertakes such a glocal project examining medical writing of international physicians and Taiwanese interns. In this study, the Corpus of English for Medical Purpose (CEMP) has been created. There are 50 experts’ (49,655 words) and 50 students’ (9,829 words) medi…
Improving Speaking Skills Through Instruction in Oral Classroom Participation
Studies in language learning have addressed the necessity of classroom interaction or students' oral participation in class. However, getting students to respond in a language classroom—especially a foreign language class—is a problem that most language teachers face. This article suggests remedies to language learners' reticence, using Taiwanese students as participants. Instruction about classroom participation was provided to students in the e…
The Application of Readers Theater to FLES (Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools) Reading and Writing
Policy and Politics in Global Primary EnglishJanetEnever. Oxford, England
Interactive learning for professional development of bilingual education by a blended instructional approach
The aim of this study was to implement an approach of blended instruction for in-service bilingual teacher-training program to investigate its feasibility based on the perceptions of the participants regarding their familiarity with bilingual education and their satisfaction with the integration of technological tools used in the blended instruction. The framework of this study focused on three characteristics of blended instruction including cle…
Leveraging ESP teachers’ roles
Co-journeying with ChatGPT in tertiary education
This paper responds to the prevalent discourse on the 'lack of English proficiency' among EMI teachers in contexts where English is used as an additional language. It explores how AI-powered tools, particularly ChatGPT, enable EMI teachers in Taiwan to leverage their expertise and teach in English with more confidence. This study first describes the training of an EMI PD programme. Then it reports on the challenges and strategies, and the extende…
Glocalization in CLIL
Glocalization is the local adaptation of global trends, and though it has been extensively studied in other fields, there has been a lower emphasis on it in pedagogy. Glocalization is especially relevant in education given that pedagogical approaches to language learning such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as a Lingua franca (ELF) have gained global popularity. The current paper examines beliefs, attitudes, and tra…
Working in the gap
Technology-mediated online EMI professional development
The growing adoption of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) presents significant challenges for faculty in non-native English-speaking contexts. This study investigates how faculty self-efficacy and teaching practices developed within a 36-h technology-mediated professional development program framed by the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework. The program systematically integrated technologies across CoI dimensions: AI applications enhanced…
Pedagogy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Foreign language (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)