Name Daniel Edward Szpotanski

Title PhD

Email szpoti@kmu.edu.tw

Phone (07)3121101 ext. 2116

Institution of Graduation

Major/Department

Degree

University of Glasgow, UK

School of Critical Studies

PhD

Expertise

1

Pragmatics

2

Discourse Analysis

3

Politeness studies

4

Relevance theory

Project Name

Start and End Dates

Project Number

1

Ministry of Education Teaching Practice Research Program (教學實踐研究計畫)

2024/09/01~

PHA1136368

1

Sarcastic Irony as a Facework Device in the Parliamentary Discourse of the UK House of Commons, 2023 PhD dissertation

1

Are More Proficient Readers More Strategic? A Case Study of Four Taiwanese EFL University Students’, Journal of Research and Education Studies, 2023, 7(3), pp. 315-332.

1

October 2024 Can ChatGPT be your digital TA?

The Ninth International Conference on English Teaching, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

2

June 2023 Are More Proficient Readers More Strategic? A Case Study of Four Taiwanese EFL University Students

2023 International Conference on Sustainable General Education, Humanities in Medicine and STEAM Education and Annual Meeting of Taiwan Congress on College General Education, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

1

2024-2025 National Sun Yat-sen University

Center for EMI Teaching Excellence

Part-time position: Assistant Professor

2

2021-2025 Feng Chia University, Taichung

Foreign Language Center

Full-time position: lecturer

Duty: Coordinator of General English, level 2

3

2017-2019 University of Glasgow, UK

School of Critical Studies

Part-time position: graduate teaching assistant

4

2008-2015 Chinese Culture University, Taipei

Department of English, Language Center

Full-time position: lecturer

5

2009-2013 Ming Chuan University, Taipei

Department of Law, Language Center

Part-time position: lecturer

6

2004-2008 Hsiuping University of Technology, Taichung

Department of Applied Languages

Full-time position: lecturer