Teacher's Name: Francois Waldeck Rousseau

Title: Project Assistant Professor

Email: fwrousseau@gmail.com

Campus extension: 851

Graduation School

Major/Department

Bachelor of Science

Tamkang University

English Department

MA TESOL

National Kaohsiung Normal University

English Department

PhD TESOL

Specialty

1

TESOL

2

Cross-cultural communication

3

Humor competence

4

Conversation Analysis

Project Name

Start and end dates of the plan

Project Number

1

Recruit and train participants for the ASEP presentation at the Department of Foreign Languages, Fooyin University

2020/02/03 ~

2020/06/05

2

Supervising the annual graduation drama production for five graduating classes of senior students – Fooyin University.

2016/09/01~

2022/06/30

3

Co-developers of aviation modules from the Department of Foreign Languages at Fooyin University.

2019/12/1 ~

2020/4/1

4

Co-principal developer of English program at Taipei Minglun Municipal Senior High School.

2014/8/1 –

2016/7/31

5

Co-principal researcher and developer of the collaborative project between Fooyin University and Kaohsiung City Hospital.

2019/12/01~

2020/05/01

1

Learning from conversations in the chat corner of the Tamkang University International Office (Master's Thesis)

2

Integrating Humor into the English Language Teaching Syllabus: Material Selection and Teaching Potential (Doctoral Dissertation)

3

Von Wielligh, G. (2017). Boesmanstories. Cape Town: !Khwan ttu & Mantis Books. ISBN 978-0-620-76789-7 (Ed.)

1

Rousseau F.W. (2024). From classroom to conversation: Exploring university chat corners as hybrid spaces for language acquisition. International Journal of English Language Teaching, 12 (4), 57-75.

2

Rousseau F.W. (2024). The effect of repetition on production in monologic speaking tasks. KMU Journal of General Education, 19 (1), 43-67

3

Rousseau, F.W. (2025). Comedy as resource for learning culture in EFL, Journal of Language and Culture in Education, 2 (2), 81-195.

4

Rousseau, F.W. (2025). The significance of linguistic relativity in Chinese language and culture acquisition, International Journal of Asian History, Cultures and Traditions, 11(1), 1-10.

1

Rousseau, FW (2022, July 16) The effect of task repetition on production in monologic speaking tasks [Conference presentation]. The 39th International Conference on English Teaching and Learning. http://english.fju.edu.tw/etra2022fju/index.asp

2

Rousseau, F. W. (2024, October 18). Comedy as resource for building cross-cultural understanding in EFL learners [Conference presentation]. Symposium on Literature and Language Teaching - Kaohsiung Medical University, Center for Language and Culture, Kaohsiung

1

07/2015 : ESL Student Documentary Production Summer Workshop – Taipei Minglun High School.

2

07/2015 : Public Speaking Summer Workshop – Taipei Minglun High School.

3

2017/06/14: Introducing future students to cultural differences and cross-cultural communication (Department of Foreign Languages, Fooyin University).

4

April 16, 2018; March 19, 2019; November 27, 2019; April 8, 2020: Judge for the Drama and Reading Competition at Fu Jen Catholic University.

5

2018/12/4: Introducing cultural differences in medicine to nursing students – Fooyin University Language Education Centre.

6

12/2019 : Served as a speaker judge for the 2019 ASEP ( Asian Student Exchange Program) - Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

7

March 29, 2024 : Invited speaker at the OEOW (English only, one week) conference. Kaohsiung Medical University

8

May 23-24, 2024 : Translation and proofreading of the website of the Office of Global Affairs, Kaohsiung Medical University.

9

2024/07/15-2024/08/7 : Translation of Departmental Course Regulations for New Students in the 2011-2023 Academic Year

10

2024.10.11: Invited Speaker: OEOW Meeting, Kaohsiung Medical University. (Differences between Spoken and Written English)

11

2024/08 – 2025/07

Leader: Strategy and Planning - Committee for Promoting Bilingualism on Campus,

Kaohsiung Medical University.