Grace Chu-Lin Chang

Receiving a 2011 Endeavour PhD Postgraduate Award from the Australian Government to fund her research, Grace now holds a PhD degree in Linguistics from Macquarie University in Sydney. Building upon her experiences in student services as an English teacher, a student affairs coordinator, a translator and a researcher, Grace devotes herself to cross-cultural communication and social participation of transnationals.

Language in education

Language learning challenges of overseas students

Grace Chu-Lin Chang has completed her PhD thesis entitled “Language learning, academic achievement, and overseas experience: A sociolinguistic study of Taiwanese students in Australian higher education”. The thesis is now available…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangFebruary 23, 2016

Next Gen Literacies

Losing voice in academic writing

Losing your voice or learning academic writing? (Source: business2community.com) “A latent function of the educational system is to instil linguistic insecurity, to discriminate linguistically, to channel children in ways that…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangNovember 13, 2012

Language and globalization

Asia’s Chronic English Disease

Asia’s Chronic English Disease The promotion of English in Asia is a frequent topic here on Language on the Move. Striving for global competitiveness and internationalization, states across Asia strongly…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangMay 29, 2012

News

Research participants wanted

Taiwanese on the Move: Intersections of Mobility, Language Learning, and Overseas Study Experience Are you an overseas student from Taiwan? If yes, you are invited to join a research project…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangOctober 5, 2011

Language learning

What is “Competent English”?

“PR” is probably one of the abbreviations I have heard most since coming to Australia. Despite the fact that PR – “permanent residence” for the non-initiated - is the much-coveted…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangAugust 5, 2011

Language learning

Behind a name

One’s name is one of the most salient features for one’s identity. Some parents suffer from extraordinary indecisiveness when giving their newborn a wonderfully auspicious and proper name, all with…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangMay 2, 2011

Language learning

Not learning English in Sydney

I’ve recently come to Sydney from Taiwan to pursue a PhD in Applied Linguistics under the supervision of Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi. They’ve encouraged me to write up my…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangApril 1, 2011

Language learning challenges of overseas students

Losing voice in academic writing

Asia’s Chronic English Disease

Research participants wanted

What is “Competent English”?

Behind a name

Not learning English in Sydney

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