Contact Information

Mailing Address

          Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction

          National Central University

          No.300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 32001,

          Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Phone ：    +886-3-422-7151 ext. 33855

Fax     ：　+886-3-4273371

E-mail：    wible45@yahoo.com

Current and Recent Affiliations

Professor

          Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction

          National Central University

          2007.08 to present

          English Department and Graduate Program

          Tamkang University

           2005 to 2007.07

          (Associate Professor, 1996 to 2005)

Visiting Scholar

　      Linguistics Department

          Stanford University

          Summer of 2005

Visiting Scholar

          Institute of Information Science

          Academia Sinica

          Summers of 2000,  2001 and 2004

Education

Ph.D. in Linguistics,  University of Illinois at

          Urbana-Champaign

          (To read my Ph.D. Dissertation online, click here )

M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language,

          University of Illinois (U-C)

B.A. in Liberal Arts, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois

Research Interests

    My main research interests are in

comparative syntax

the syntax and lexical semantics interface

the relevance of these to language typology and second language

          acquisition

computational aspects of learner corpus research and deep error

          detection

web-supported language learning systems design