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Yu-Jung Chang

  • Job Title: Associate Professor
  • Office Hour: Thu 12:00-13:00 or by appointment
  • Phone: (03)5715131 ext. 42707
  • E-Mail: yjchang [at] mx.nthu.edu.tw
  • Office: HSS Building C631
  • Education: Ph.D. in English, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  • Teaching: Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Language and Culture, World Englishes, Identity in Language Teaching and Learning; Thesis Writing
  • Research Expertise: Language and Identity, Qualitative research, Genre Theory

Journal Articles

  • Chang, Y. (2024). Exploring Taiwanese students' stances on the Bilingual 2030 policy: Multiple perspectives, positionings, and discourses. English Teaching & Learning. (THCI Core) https://rdcu.be/dwGAb
  • Chang, Y. (2022). (Re)Imagining Taiwan through “2030 Bilingual Nation”: Languages, Identities, and Ideologies. Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 19(1). (THCI Core)
  • Chang, Y-C., & Chang Y. (2019). Identity negotiation in the third space: An analysis of YouTube channels hosted by expatriates in Taiwan. Language and Intercultural Communication, 19(1), p.77-92. (SSCI)
  • Chang, Y. (2018). Certified but not qualified? EFL pre-service teachers in liminality. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 17(1), p. 48-62. (SSCI)
  • Chang, Y. & Huang, H.-T. (2015). Exploring TED talks as a pedagogical resource for oral presentations: A corpus-based move analysis. English Teaching & Learning, 39(4), 29-62. (THCI Core)
  • Huang, H.-T. & Chang, Y. (2015). Applying genre-based and L2 pragmatic instruction to teaching oral presentation on the web. International Journal of Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 5(4).p. 66-83.
  • Chang, Y. (2015). Being a part of the globalized world?Globalization, English, and world membership from students' perspectives. English Teaching & Learning, 39(1), 69-97. (THCI Core)
  • Chang, Y. (2014). Learning English today: What can World Englishes teach college students in Taiwan? English Today, 30(1), 21-27. (SSCI)
  • Yang, M., Chang, Y.-J., & Huang, H.-T. (2013). EFL students’ use of interpersonal discourse strategies in oral presentations. Selected papers from the 22nd International Symposium on English Teaching, pp. 162-173. (ETA Best Paper Award)
  • Sun, Y. & Chang Y. (2012). Blogging to learn: Becoming EFL Academic writers through collaboration dialogues. Language Learning & Technology, 16 (1), p. 43-61.(SSCI)
  • Liu, J., Chang Y., Yang, F., & Sun Y. (2011). Is what I need what I want? Reconceptualizing college students’ needs in English courses for general and specific/academic purposes. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 10, p. 271-280.(SSCI)
  • Chang Y. (2011). Picking one's battles: NNES doctoral students' imagined communities and selections of investment. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 10(4), p. 213-230. (SSCI)
  • Chang, Y. & Kanno, Y. (2010). NNES doctoral students in English-speaking academe: The nexus between language and discipline. Applied Linguistics, 31(5), p. 671-692. (SSCI)
  • Yu, W., Sun, Y. & Chang, Y. (2010). When technology speaks language: An evaluation of the use of course management systems in content-specific contexts. ReCALL, 22(3), p. 332-335. (SSCI)

Conference Papers

  • Chang, Y. (November, 2022). The discursive construction of a nation: Identities and ideologies in Taiwan's bilingual policy. Paper presented at the 14th Asian Conference on Education, Tokyo, Japan (Virtual).
  • Chang, Y. (March, 2021). Revalorizing minority languages via neoliberal ideologies: A case study of A-Hua-Sai’s multilingual YouTube videos. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2021 Conference (Virtual).
  • Chang, Y. & Yang, W-C. (November, 2016). Presentation structure: In class and in real life. Paper presented at the 42nd JALT Annual international conference on language teaching and learning, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Shen, C-Y. & Chang, Y. (November, 2016). Comparing rhetorical techniques in presentations. Paper presented at the 42nd JALT Annual international conference on language teaching and learning, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Chang, Y-C & Chang, Y. (September, 2016). Negotiating second language identities in the new millennium contact zone: An analysis of YouTube channels hosted by expats in Taiwan. Paper presented at the British Association of Applied Linguistics 2016 conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Chang, Y.(March, 2015). "Am I a student, a teacher, both, or Neither?": Acquiring, Imagining, and negotiating EFL teacher identity in liminal places. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2015 Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Chang, Y. & Huang, H. (March, 2014). "A Corpus-Based Move Analysis of TED Talks: What Can an Emerging Genre Tell Us about Oral Presentations?"Paper accepted at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2014 Conference, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
  • Chang, Y. & Huang, H. (October, 2012). Learning from world speakers: A genre-based instruction for EFL oral presentations. Paper presented at the Asian Conference on Education 2012,Osaka, Japan.
  • Huang, H. & Chang, Y. (May, 2012). Speaking academically: Pragmatic instruction on the web.Paper presented at the 15th International CALL Research Conference, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Chang, Y. (August, 2011). EFL college students' global participation: Language, membership and self-positioning in the imagined community. In H.S. Liu (Chair), Collaboration and dialogues between language processing and acquisition researchers in Asian contexts. Colloquium accepted at the 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics(AILA2011), Beijing, China.
  • Chang, Y. (March, 2011). International teaching assistants’ resources, agency, and teaching investment in a globalized academia. Paper accepted at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2011 Conference, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Chang, Y. (March, 2010). When English is unimportant: NNES doctoral students’ selective language investment. Paper accepted for presentation at the TESOL 2010 Convention, Boston, U.S.A.
  • Chang, Y. (March, 2010). “I am up here because I know more": International teaching assistants’ self-positioning and agency as NNES instructors. Paper accepted for the American Association for presentation at Applied Linguistics 2010 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
  • Chang, Y. (October, 2009). Supporting locally to participate globally: Lessons learned from NNES international doctoral students’ overseas academic experiences. Paper presented at the 2009 International Asian Conference on Education, Osaka, Japan.
  • Chang, Y. (March, 2009). NNES doctoral students' disciplinary enculturation: Imagined communities and selections of investment. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2009 Conference, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
  • Chang, Y. (March, 2008). NNES PhD students' enculturation across disciplines. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2008 Conference, Washington DC, U.S.A.
  • Campa, H., Chang, Y., Slotemaker, S., (April, 2005). Not all verb tenses are created equal - A corpus based study on verb tense frequency and corresponding treatment in grammar textbooks. Paper presented at the 2005 TESOL conference, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.

Research Projects

  • 2016/08 -
    Taiwanese pre-service secondary EFL teachers in liminality (Project for Excellent Junior Research Investigators)
    Principle Investigator, Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  • 2014/08 - 2015/12
    Oral presentations at TED and in textbooks: A corpus-based analysis of presentation structure and language
    Principle Investigator, Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  • 2010/11 - 2011/10
    EFL College Students’ Responses to a Globalized World: Language, Identity, and the imagined community
    Principle Investigator, Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Honors

  • 2016 一零四學年度校傑出教學獎

Professional Experience

  • 2016/08 - Present
    Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
    National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • 2011/02 - 2016/07
    Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
    National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • 2010/02 - 2011/01
    Contracted Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
    National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • 2009/09 - 2010/01
    Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
    National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  • 2003/11 - 2004/08
    MA Research Assistant
    National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • 2003/01 - 2003/11
    Journalist, Taipei Times, Taiwan