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The theory of learning multimodality is receiving greater attention. Its application in language learning classes is also increasing in number. Since Chinese-speaking EFL learners are likely to be visual learners, as an instructor of Taiwanese EFL students, I have come to believe that arts integrated, multimodal projects help less confident and less motivated students. In this article I report on two case-study students over the two successive years, when they were under my instruction and engaged in a series of multimodal English writing tasks, including an online literature circle, five first-person narratives with images, and digital storytelling. Using a case study approach, I closely examined the two students' course work and closing reflections each semester. The results of the qualitative data analysis revealed that the multimodal learning practices enhanced the two students' motivation and confidence, after they had been discouraged by conventional language learning instructions. A discussion of the two students' evolution into active English writers is presented in detail. Their compositions, constructed within multiple modes, are provided to exemplify that arts integrated pedagogy can inspire and empower at-risk EFL students and lead them to a realm that a paper-and-pencil task can never match.

Introduces the activity of student-written reading logs as a practical application of reader-response theory in English-as-Foreign-Language literature teaching. Because reader-response theory stresses the synthesis between reader and text, it is proposed that practical applications should be based on the interaction. (Author/VWL)

In early 2015, the Mathematics-Literature Creativity Award was offered through competition for technological and vocational college students in Taiwan. This paper focuses on the two winning works, the poem Parabola and the flash-fiction, Love Letters of a Science Student, by analyzing the mathematical notions involved and their uses to enhance literary expression. The introduction surveys briefly the various ways of combining mathematics and literature in a piece of creative writing that enriches and supports communication in both disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study investigating the institutional and individual research contribution of researchers from Asian countries towards the literature on service science through papers from several service research journals including International Journal of Service Industry Management, Journal of Services Marketing and Journal of Service Research. It is mentioned that the top five contributors include Singapore, Taiwan and Israel, and majority of the contributions from Asian authors are based on empirical research.

Viewed from a postcolonial angle, this paper intends to examine the paradoxical aspects of the Taiwanese director Wei Te-Sheng's action saga by analyzing both the Orientalization of the Taiwanese aboriginal saga/epic and the literary aesthetics of minor writing/literature that happens to create a resistance literature in this movie. In other words, I plan to examine the problematic aspects--both positive and negative aspects--of Wei's Orientalization of this epic/saga movie. And the main postcolonial literary theories appropriated in this paper are those of Said, Spivak, Bhabha and Deleuze. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The objective of this study was to conduct a survey of the academic contribution and influence of Chinese scholars in the field of burns.Method: The PubMed database was searched to obtain literature items originating from various countries and Chinese provinces from 1985 to 2014. The citation data were collected through the Google Scholar engine.Results: A total of 1037 papers published in 256 journals were included in this survey. China was second only to the USA in the number of publications on burns since 2010. In addition, the annual number of papers has increased significantly since 2001. The journal Burns published the most number of articles, but its proportion has been decreasing. Of the papers included in the survey, 58.34% were published in journals with a 5-year impact factor between 1 and 2, whereas only 3.66% were published in journals with an impact factor >5. Both total citations and citations per paper have decreased in the past decade. Randomized controlled trials or systematic reviews merely accounted for a small proportion. Twenty-nine provinces including 64 cities contributed one paper at least. The publications from Taiwan, Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Guangdong were high in both quantity and quality.Conclusion: The Chinese academic contribution to the field of burns is now on a rise. Although the quality of papers is lagging behind quantity, scholars and academies are dedicated to improving China's academic level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Culture is the soul of a nation and literature can shed light on the understanding of a nation's culture. This paper focuses on the translation of Taiwanese literary and historical literary works in Vietnam, and how it has shifted the Vietnamese readers' perception of Taiwanese literature. Previously, Taiwanese culture and literature were only vaguely perceived, and often viewed as regional literature by Vietnamese readers. However, Taiwanese literature has been increasingly translated in Vietnam in the recent years. This gradually shifts the Vietnamese readers' perception of Taiwanese culture, bolstering their understanding of Taiwan's native literature. With the increasing presence of translated literary works in Vietnam, the culturally distinct native spirit embodied in Taiwanese literature has attracted the attention of Vietnamese readers. As such, Taiwanese literature is being recognized as an independent literary entity in Vietnam. On this basis, we anticipate that Taiwanese culture and literature will become an important research topic in the Vietnamese literary academia that is worth exploring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Taiwan Southern Min ka and hoo have been broadly investigated in the literature (e.g., Cheng et al. 1999, Lien 2002, Tsao 2005). However, very little of the previous research has focused on the interaction between these two functional words. This paper thus explores structures with a ka...hoo configuration. Through the examination of corpus data, this paper finds that ka...hoo constructions are mainly separated into two constructions: ditransitive and resultative constructions. Based on the constructional approach, the ditransitive construction is found to include four construction patterns which can help differentiate verb types. In addition, the event structure account of the resultative ka...hoo construction is explored. It is posited that the event telicity may change when the causative word hoo overtly occurs. The distinction between a ditransitive and a resultative ka...hoo construction significantly reduces the confusion in data where the ka...hoo configuration is found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This paper uses the content analysis method to review the research papers on public relations published in the past 10 years, concludes the current situation and trend of public relations research, and reveals the variations and laws of public relations research in China. In addition, this paper also compares the public relations literatures published in Mainland China with those in Taiwan, which benefits the understanding of the research situation and trend on public relations across the Strait. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The purpose of the study was to qualitatively investigate the process by which a Taiwanese doctoral student majoring in Chinese Literature employed self-guided bibliotherapy to deal with his emotional difficulties related to identity conflicts. The sources of data collection included face-to-face interviews, transcripts of cell phone conversations, and bibliotherapeutic materials. The researchers analyzed these data using an analytical framework, The Model of the S-P-R-I-N-G Theory coined by Wang (Wang, Chang, & Chang, 2009), because the model can explicate the participant's successful self-guided bibliotherapeutic journey. The results of the study facilitate a better understanding of the role self-guided bibliotherapy played in resolving a Taiwanese doctoral student's life distress. It also presents an opportunity for educators to critically think about how to foster students' self-guided mental energy on campus, such as in English reading and/or writing courses. Furthermore, interested researchers may conduct similar or further researches pertaining to self-guided bibliotherapy for the contribution of bibliotherapy practice, research, and theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After almost thirty years' efforts on studying transient luminous events (TLEs), ground-based observation has confirmed the TLE family, including elves, halos, sprites, and blue jets, etc. The typical elve has the shortest emission time (<1 ms) in comparison with other TLEs. The second shortest is the halo emission. Although elves and halos are supposed to be more frequent than sprites, ground campaigns still have less probability of recording their images due to their fleeting and short emission. Additionally, the submillisecond imaging of elves, halos, and sprite halos helps us resolve their electro-optic dynamics and morphological features, but few have been reported in the literature. Our study presents the 10,000 fps imaging frames on elves, halos and sprite halos, compares their similarity and disparity, and analyzes their parent lightning properties with associated VLF and ELF data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the study was to qualitatively scrutinize the process by which a middle-aged Taiwanese woman employed self-guided bibliotherapy to alleviate her bereavement over her younger brother's suicide. The data sources included face-to-face, MSN and Skype interviews, self-help bibliotherapeutic materials, the participant's written works, mind-mapping and member checking. The researchers took stock of these data, using a conceptual framework, the model of the A-B-C theory by Ellis (Corey, 1996), which can describe how the participant moved on by dint of self-guided bibliotherapy. This study facilitates a better understanding of the effectiveness and importance of self-guided bibliotherapy in daily life. Pedagogically speaking, educators and school counselors may utilize bibliotherapy to boost students’ bibliotherapeutic energy and offer the resources available to them, the current or the future. Moreover, interested researchers may work on further studies related to bibliotherapy in normal teaching contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature on science conceptions research and field investigations was used to probe alternative conceptions of primary school pupils. Theoretical studies from the literature have shown that there are many emphases on the physical meaning and the effects drawn by philosophers of science leading to the formation of new paradigms concerning science conceptions research. Our focus on primary school pupils' alternative conceptions pertaining to batteries (ACCB), in six phases, was to (1) analyse the context regarding batteries present in primary school; (2) summarize propositional statements and develop a target concept map on batteries; (3) edit protocols for interviews; (4) collect and analyse pupils' ACCB; (5) use the results from phases (1)-(4) to construct a two-tier diagnostic instrument; and (6) submit our instrument with others to carry out tests in a National Science Concept Learning Study (NSCLS). Interview results from 21 primary school pupils show that the characteristics of their ACCB can be categorized into several conceptual models related to language, learning processes, and public media. From the NSCLS, two-tier test data depict the ACCB of the primary school pupils in Taiwan. Many alternative conceptions are significantly related to language and daily life in Taiwan. ACCB in this research can be categorized as either content free or content specific. Conception models based on content free and content specific are presented according to the properties of the ACCB. Our joint venture on concept formation research has been affected by the four temporal paradigms formed at certain prominent historical landmarks in science conceptions research. Our data also show a degree of general similarity with existing literature on science conceptions research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]