Faculty Profile

 

Basic Information

Name: Francois Waldeck Rousseau

Rank: Lecturer

Email: fwrousseau@gmail.com

Extension: 851

 

Education

Institution of Graduation

Major/Department

Degree

Tamkang University

English

M.A. TESOL

 

Expertise

 

Expertise

1

TESOL

2

Cross cultural communication

3

Humor competence

4

Conversation analysis

 

Projects

 

Project Name

Start and End Dates

Project Number

1

Recruit and train participants for ASEP presentations at Fooyin University Foreign Language Department.

 

2020/02/03 ~

2020/06/05

 

2

Supervise 5 annual graduation play productions for senior year students – Fooyin University.

2016/09/01~

2022/06/30

 

3

Co-principal developer of Aviation Module for Department of Foreign Languages, Fooyin University.

2019/12/1 ~

2020/4/1

 

 

4

Co-principal developer of ad hoc government-funded English program at Minglun Municipal Senior High School, Taipei City.

2014/8/1 –

2016/7/31

 

 

5

Co-principal investigator and developer of collaboration program between Fooyin University and Kaohsiung United Municipal Hospital.

2019/12/01~

2020/05/01

 

 

Dissertations and Books

1

Learning from Conversations at Tamkang University’s International Office (M.A. Thesis)

2

Incorporating Humour in the EFL Syllabus: Material Selection and Pedagogical Potential (PhD Dissertation)

3

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

 

Journal Papers

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

 

Presentations at Conferences

1

·        Rousseau, F. W. (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

 

Academic Service

1

07/2015: Summer Workshop on Documentary Filmmaking for ESL students – Minglun Senior High School, Taipei.

2

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

3

2017/06/14: Presentation to prospective students on Cultural Differences and Cross-cultural Communication (Fooyin University Foreign Language Department).

4

2018/4/16, 2019/03/19, 2019/11/27, 2020/04/08: Judge in Drama and Reading Contests, Fooyin University.

5

2018/12/4: Presentation to nursing students on Cultural Differences in Medicine – Fooyin University Language Education Center.

6

12/2019: Judge in the 2019 ASEP (Asian Student Exchange Program) presentations – Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

7

2024/3/29: Guest Speaker at OEOW (Only English One Week) meeting. Kaohsiung Medical University.

8

2024/5/23-24: Website translation and proofreading, Office of Global Affairs, Kaohsiung Medical University.

9

2024/07/15-2024/08/7: Translations of departmental regulations of freshman courses for 113 academic year.

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