ISSUE 6Fall 2024

Featured News

• ITSC Introduction
• Interview: Professor Shu-Mei Shih and the UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative

Academic Publication

• ITSC’s Book Series: Sinophone and Taiwan Studies
• ITSC’s Journal: East Asian Journal of Popular Culture

PopularPublications and Engagement

Publication News

• Four Hundred Years of Taiwan’s Economy
• TaiGiddy: The World’s First Gamified Taiwanese Learning Website
• Fading Shadows of the Japanese Era: Taiwan Across Two Historical Epochs
• Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa
• Transcending Time and Space: Han Hsiang-ning
• Card-Based Writing: A Simple and Effective Approach to Gamified Writing Instruction
• Super Taiwanese Primer
• One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
• “BEST ME” Teacher’s Social and Emotional Learning Handbook

Engagement News

• Reviving Indigenous Soundscapes
• Bagua Daoyin Energizes the Body and Mind

Upcoming Events

• The 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies
• International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences - IWALS 2024

ISSUE 5Summer 2024

Featured News

• IRELS Introduction
• Cover Story

Additional News and Highlights

Research News

• Visual Analogue Scale for Rating, Ranking and Paired-Comparison (VAS-RRP): A New Technique for Psychological Measurement
• Virtual Reality as a Tool for Investigating Instructional Design Principles

Engagement News

• NTNU's new earthquake response VR system, in partnership with New Taipei City, aims to enhance students’ disaster preparedness

Upcoming Events

• International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences - IWALS 2024
• Nature Taiwan - Wild Wetland 2024

Awards & Honors

• Outstanding Research Award- Prof. Hsin-Yi Chang
• Outstanding Research Award- Prof. Kai-Lin Yang

Issue 4Sep 2023

In this issue:

• Chinese Characters Reimagined: A Key Image Strategy with Hanzi
• “Learning Chinese Characters with Drawings” Series Textbook
• IWALS 2023: 9th International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences (IWALS)

Issue 3May 2023

In this issue:

• Early Dialogic Reading and Child Brain Development
• NTNU Integrates Language Technology into Early Childhood Education, Flipping Learning
• Introduction to Book Series–「Chinese Language Learning Sciences」

Issue 2Jan 2023

In this issue:

• Learning English in a Virtual World – Immersive vocabulary learning is effective
• NTNU’s language technology makes teaching and learning more enjoyable, easy, and effective
• Academic Journals Published by National Taiwan Normal University

Issue 1Sep 2022

In this issue:

• Using VR technology to create an immersive language learning experience
• NTNU’s language technology is integrated into teaching, making a solid debut
• IWALS 2022: Learning Sciences and Technology