About

Dr. Chun-yin Doris Chen is a distinguished professor of the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). She received from the UIUC her Ph.D. in linguistics in 1991. Her research interests have gradually shifted from syntax to first/second language acquisition, teaching Chinese as a second language, and bilingual education. Her service to the field of linguistics includes membership on the advisory councils of foundation projects on L2 Chinese language policy and English teaching, and refereeing for grant proposals, conferences, and journals. She was elected to the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of Taiwan and served as the President for two years (2012-2014). And she served as the convener of the Linguistics Division at the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan from 2016 to 2018.