Principal Investigator

Contact Information

Wei-Lun Chung [NameCoach] 

E-mail: wwlchung at mail dot ntue dot edu dot tw

Education

1. Ph.D. Communication Sciences and Disorders – University of Memphis, USA – December 2015

2. M.A. Linguistics – Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan – June 2005

3. B.Ed. Languages and Literature Education – University of Taipei (formerly as Taipei Municipal Teachers College), Taiwan – June 2003

Work Experience  

• Associate Professor, Department of Special Education –  National Taipei University of Education  –  February 2023 - present

• Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education –  National Taipei University of Education  –  February 2022 - January 2023

• Assistant Professor, Department of Education & Center for Teacher Education & Career Service  –  National Taipei University of Education  –  August 2018 - January 2022

• Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education  –  National Pingtung University  –  August 2017 - July 2018

• Postdoctoral Fellow of the Aim for the Top University Project  –  National Taiwan Normal University – August 2016 - May 2017

Extramural Funding

1. PI, "Taiwanese children’s early writing development: Verbal working memory, transcription and linguistic abilities II," National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan. (NSTC 112-2410-H-152-013-) – 2023/08/01 – 2024/7/31 

2. PI, "Syntactic complexity between the ages of 3-9," Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. (MOST 111-2410-H-152 -012 -) – 2022/08/01 - 2023/07/31

3. PI, "Taiwanese children’s early writing development: Verbal working memory, transcription and linguistic abilities," Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. (MOST 110-2410-H-152 -004 -) – 2021/08/01 - 2023/07/31

4. PI, "Auditory processing, prosodic awareness, oral reading prosody, and the relation with early reading ability in Mandarin-speaking children III," Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. (MOST 109-2410-H-152 -028 -) – 2020/08/01 - 2021/07/31

5. PI, "Using the software Praat to facilitate the emergence of pre-service teachers' knowledge of phonetics," Ministry of Education, Taiwan. (MOE PED1090397) – 2020/08/01 - 2021/07/31

6. Co-PI, "Relations between executive functions and the development of literacy skills from preschool through second grade," Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. (MOST 109-2410-H-227 -007 -MY3) – 2020/08/01 - 2023/07/31 (PI: Dr. Hui-Chun Yang)

7. PI, "Auditory processing, prosodic awareness, oral reading prosody, and the relation with early reading ability in Mandarin-speaking children II," Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. (MOST 108-2410-H-152-009-) – 2019/08/01 - 2020/07/31 

8. PI, "Auditory processing, prosodic awareness, oral reading prosody, and the relation with early reading ability in Mandarin-speaking children," Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. (MOST 107-2410-H-153-001) – 2018/02/01 - 2019/07/31 

9. PI, "Travel Grants for Visiting Scientists (Dr. Joanne Arciuli, The University of Sydney)," Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 107-2912-I-153-502 )– 2018/11/13 – 2018/11/19

10. PI, “Auditory processing and linguistic prosody as cross-linguistic precursors in reading development,” Spencer Dissertation Fellowship program, National Academy of Education (unfunded)– 2014

11. PI, “The relation between phonological awareness and foreign word learning,” Research Scholarship, National Science Council, Taiwan (completed) – 2002/07 - 2003/02

Awards

1. Recruiting Outstanding and Excellent Scholars Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. (MOST 107-2924-I-153-001-ESR) – 2018/01/01 – 2018/12/31

2. Conference Travel Award, Institute of Intelligent Systems and Graduate Student Association at the University of Memphis – 2012, 2013, 2014, & 2015.

3. Thesis Finalist of Linguistic Society of Taiwan – 2007/06

4. Honorary Member of the Fu Jen Catholic University Branch of the Phi Tao Phi Scholastic Society – 2005/06

5. College Student Research Award, National Science Council, Taiwan – 2003/07/10

Publications: Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Chung, W.-L. (2024). General auditory processing, Mandarin L1 prosodic and phonological awareness, and English L2 word learning. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. doi:10.1515/iral-2023-0168 

2. Chung, W.-L., Kyriaki, L., & Arciuli, J. (2023). Associations between sleep, reading and mathematics in Taiwanese children. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93(3), 694-711. doi:10.1111/bjep.12586 

3. Chung, W.-L. (2022). Oral reading prosody and the relation with reading abilities: A comparison of two rating scales. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. doi:10.1007/s11145-022-10322-1

4. Chung, W.-L., & Yang, H.-C. (2022). The relationship between oral language and storytelling prosody in preschool children. Infant and Child Development, 31(4), e2329. doi:10.1002/icd.2329

5. Chung, W.-L., & Bidelman, G. M. (2021). Acoustic features of oral reading prosody and the relation with reading fluency and reading comprehension in Taiwanese children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(1), 334-343. doi:10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00252 

6. Chung, W.-L., Jarmulowicz, L., & Bidelman, G. M. (2021). Cross-linguistic contributions of acoustic cues and prosodic awareness to first and second language vocabulary knowledge. Journal of Research in Reading, 44(2), 434-452. doi:10.1111/1467-9817.12349

7. Chung, W.-L., & Bidelman, G. M. (2020). Mandarin-speaking preschoolers’ pitch discrimination, prosodic and phonological awareness, and their relation to receptive vocabulary and reading abilities. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 34, 337-353. doi:10.1007/s11145-020-10075-9 

8. Chung, W.-L., Jarmulowicz, L., & Bidelman, G. M. (2017). Auditory processing, linguistic prosody awareness, and word reading in Mandarin-speaking children learning English. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 30, 1407-1429. doi:10.1007/s11145-017-9730-8

9. Chung, W.-L., & Jarmulowicz, L. (2017). Stress judgment and production in English derivation, and word reading in adult Mandarin-speaking English learners. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46, 997-1017. doi:10.1007/s10936-017-9475-1

10. Chung, W.-L., & Bidelman, G. M. (2016). Cortical encoding and neurophysiological tracking of intensity and pitch cues signaling English stress patterns in native and nonnative speakers. Brain and Language, 155-156, 49-57. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2016.04.004

11. Bidelman, G. M., & Chung, W.-L. (2015). Tone-language speakers show hemispheric specialization and differential cortical processing of contour and interval cues for pitch. Neuroscience, 305, 384-392. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.08.010

12. Chung, W.-L., & Hu, C. F. (2007). Morphological awareness and learning to read Chinese. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 20, 441-461. doi:10.1007/s11145-006-9037-7

13. Chung, W.-L. (2003). The relation between phonological awareness and foreign word learning. Unpublished National Science Council Research Report.

Presentations: International/National – Peer Reviewed 

1. Chung, W.-L. (2024, February). Relative contributions of speech prosody and reading prosody to reading comprehension. Paper presented at the 8th annual conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia, Jeju Island, South Korea.

2. Yang, H.-C. & Chung, W.-L. (2024, February). Can preschoolers’ executive functions predict their reading abilities in second grade? Poster presented at the 8th annual conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia, Jeju Island, South Korea.

3. Chung, W.-L. (2023, February). Acoustic measures of reading prosody, text difficulty and reading comprehension. Paper presented at the 7th annual conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia, Virtual Meeting. 

4. Yang, H.-C. & Chung, W.-L. (2022, October). Preschoolers’ executive functions and the relation with their reading abilities in first grade. Paper presented at the online symposium of the Asia Pacific Society of Speech, Language and Hearing.

5. 鐘偉倫（2022，8月）。使用語音軟體Praat促進職前教師語音學知識的萌發。口頭發表於110年教學實踐研究計畫成果交流會，靜宜大學，臺中。

6. Chung, W.-L. (2022, February). Text difficulty and oral reading prosody in Taiwanese fourth graders. Paper presented at the 6th annual conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia, Virtual Meeting.

7. Yang, H.-C. & Chung, W.-L. (2022, February). Executive functions and preliteracy skills in Taiwanese preschool children. Paper presented at the 6th annual conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia, Virtual Meeting.

8. Chung, W.-L. & Yang, H.-C. (2021, November). Speech prosody and oral language ability in Taiwanese preschool children. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, D.C. 

9. Chung, W.-L. (2021, July). Acoustic features of oral reading prosody and the relation with reading fluency and reading comprehension in Taiwanese children. Paper presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Virtual Meeting.

10. Chung, W.-L. (2021, March). Oral reading prosody and the relation with reading comprehension: A comparison of two rating scales. Paper presented at the 5th annual conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia, Virtual Meeting.

11. Chung, W.-L. (2020, October). Contributions of pitch discrimination, prosodic and phonological awareness to reading abilities: A one-year longitudinal study from preschool to first grade. Paper presented at the Conference on Child Development and Family Studies, Taipei, Taiwan. 

12. Chung, W.-L. (2020, July). Mandarin-speaking preschoolers’ pitch discrimination, prosodic and phonological awareness, and the relation with their reading abilities in first grade. Paper accepted at the 27th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Newport Beach, CA. (conference canceled)

13. Chung, W.-L. (2019, August). Prosodic processing, phonological awareness and vocabulary knowledge in Mandarin-speaking children. Paper presented at the 31st World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP), Taipei, Taiwan.

14. Chung, W.-L. (2018, July). Phonological awareness and working memory are better predictors of poor English learners than prosodic awareness. Poster presented at the 25th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Brighton, United Kingdom.

15. Chung, W.-L., Jarmulowicz, L., & Bidelman, G. M. (2017, July). Amplitude envelope onset, native prosodic and phonological awareness, and nonnative word learning. Paper presented as part of Symposium on The Secret Life of Suprasegmentals at the 24th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Halifax, Canada.

16. Chung, W.-L. (2016, October). Cross-linguistic contributions of acoustic cues and prosody awareness for first and second language vocabulary knowledge. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Taiwanese Psychological Association, Tainan, Taiwan.

17. Chung, W.-L., Jarmulowicz, L., & Bidelman, G. M. (2015, July). Auditory processing, linguistic prosody awareness, and word reading in Mandarin-English bilingual children. Paper presented as part of Symposium on New Investigations into Suprasegmental Phonology and Reading at the 22nd annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, The Big Island, HI. 

18. Chung, W.-L. & Bidelman, G. M. (2015, March). Tone-language speakers show hemispheric specialization and differential cortical processing of contour and interval cues for pitch. Poster presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. 

19. Bidelman, G. M., & Chung, W.-L. (2015, March). Cortical encoding and neurophysiological tracking of English stress patterns in native and nonnative speakers. Poster presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. 

20. Bidelman, G. M., & Chung, W.-L. (2015, February). Tone-language speakers show hemispheric specialization and differential cortical processing of contour and interval cues for pitch. Poster presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD.

21. Chung, W.-L., & Jarmulowicz, L. (2014, July). English stress perception, production, and reading by adult Mandarin-speaking English learners. Paper presented as part of Symposium on The Role of Prosody in Reading at the 21st annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Santa Fe, NM.

22. Chung, W.-L., Jarmulowicz, L., & Buder, E. H. (2014, May). English stress production by Taiwanese college students. Paper presented at the 31st International Conference on English Teaching and Learning, Zhongli, Taiwan.

23. Chung, W.-L., & Jarmulowicz, L. (2013, November). English stress knowledge and reading ability in adult Mandarin-speaking English learners. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

24. Chung, W.-L., & Jarmulowicz, L. (2013, July). English stress in word production, perception, and reading by Chinese-speaking English learners. Poster presented at the 20th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Hong Kong, China.

25. Chung, W.-L., & Jarmulowicz, L. (2012, November). Morphological awareness: A comparison of two derivational morphology tasks. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

26. Chung, W.-L., Jarmulowicz, L., & McMillen, S. (2012, November). Lexical stress assignment in adult Chinese-speaking English learners. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

27. Chung, W.-L., & Hu, C. F. (2005, July). Early development of morphological awareness in Chinese-speaking children. Paper presented at the 6th Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association 2005 Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.

Invited Talks

1. Chung, W.-L. (2019, October). Reading development, literacy instruction and struggling readers in Taiwan. Invited talk will be given in the Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology at National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan.

2. Chung, W.-L. (2017, September). Prosody and reading. Invited talk given in the Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology at National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan.

3. Chung, W.-L. (2017, May). Prosody and reading. Invited talk given in the Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at Asia University, Taiwan.

4. Chung, W.-L. (2016, June). Prosody and reading. Invited talk given at Florida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, USA.

5. Chung, W.-L. (2015, March). Auditory processing, linguistic prosody awareness, and word reading in Mandarin-English bilingual children. Invited talk given at the Clinical Research Colloquium, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, USA.

6. Chung, W.-L. (2015, February). Tone-language speakers show hemispheric specialization and differential cortical processing of contour and interval cues for pitch. Invited talk given at the Ph.D. Colloquium, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, USA.

7. Chung, W.-L., & Jarmulowicz, L. (2013, March). Mandarin-speaking English learners’ English learning difficulties: English stress matters. Invited talk given at the Clinical Research Colloquium, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, USA.

Ad-Hoc Journal Review

1.  Applied Psycholinguistics

2.  Frontier in Neuroscience, section Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience

3.  Frontier in Psychology, section Developmental Psychology    

4.  Frontier in Psychology, section Educational Psychology

5.  Frontier in Psychology, section Language Sciences

6.  International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

7.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

8.  Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

9.  Journal of Research in Education Sciences

10.  Journal of Research in Reading

11.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

12.  Language and Education

13.  Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal

14.  Special Education Quarterly

Review of Book Chapters

    Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy

Research Skills (Software)

1. Acoustic analysis: Praat, TF32

2. Electrophysiological signal analysis: Neuroscan Curry, Matlab

3. Language sample analysis: CLAN, SALT

4. Statistics: SPSS, LISREL

Certificate

1. Certificate of Assistant Professor, Ministry of Education, Taiwan – 2017/08/15

2. Teacher Training Program in Chinese as a Foreign Language, National Taiwan Normal University – 2010/07/08

3. Certificate of Elementary School Teacher, Ministry of Education, Taiwan – 2006/06/23

Teaching Experience

• National Taipei University of Education

1. SPE 393800 Language Development and Therapy (Sp 19) 

2. CTECS Mandarin Phonetics and Speech (Sp 19) 

3. CTECS Classroom Management (Sp 19) 

4. EDU 663700 Research on Pedagogy of Language art-Mandarin (Sp 19) 

5. EDU 244400  Materials and Methods of Teaching Mandarin (Fa 18) 

6. EDU 327800 Instructional Design of Children Books (Fa 18) 

7. EDU 0771100 Mind, Brain and Education (Fa 18) 

8. EDU 0285800 Principles of Instruction (Fa 18) 

9. EDU 277400 Introduction to Education (Fa 18) 

• National Pingtung University

1. SPU 2113 Communication Skills Training (Sp 18) 

2. SPU 2136 Hearing Impairments (Fa 17)

3. SPU 2151 Communication Disorders (Fa 17) 

4. SPU 4104 Psychological Tests (Sp 18) 

5. SPU 4102 Education Statistics( I ) (Fa 17)

6. SPU 2107 Theory and Practice of Inclusive Education (Sp 18) 

7. SPI 1107 Seminar in Special Education (Fa 17; Sp 18) 

8. SPI 2102 Seminar in Assessment of Special Education (Sp 18) 

9. SPI 2227 Seminar in Literacy Instruction for Individuals with Special Needs (Fa 17) 

K-12

1. Teacher, Taipei Municipal Jian-An Elementary School – 2006/08 - 2011/07

2. Substitute Service draftee of Education, Hualien County He-Ping Elementary School – 2007/06 - 2008/06

3. Student teacher, Affiliated Experimental Elementary School, National Taipei University of Education – 2005/07 - 2006/06

4. Student teacher, Taipei Municipal Dong-Men Elementary School – 2003/04

Thesis advised

1. Hao-Ting Han

2. Shang-Qing Lin

Thesis Committees

1. Tsai, Yi-Shan (completed 2018). The effect of mind-mapping instruction on reading comprehension via board game instructions for elementary school students with learning disabilities. National Pingtung University.

Service

1. Member, Identification, Placement, and Review Committee, National Pingtung University – August 2017 ~ July 2018

2. Special education counselor, Center of Special Education, National Pingtung University – August 2017 ~ July 2018

3. Clinical supervisor, Center of Special Education, National Pingtung University – August 2017 ~ July 2018

4. Member, Identification, Placement, and Review Committee, Kaohsiung City Government – 2018

5. Member, Identification, Placement, and Review Committee, Pingtung County Government – 2018

Scholarship

1. Ph.D. Assistantship, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders ($16,800 plus tuition waiver per annum), University of Memphis, USA – 2011/09 - 2015/12

2. Government Scholarship to Study Abroad, Ministry of Education ($16,000 per annum), Taiwan – 2011/06 - 2013/05

3. Scholarship for Graduate Student of Linguistics ($250), The Language Training & Testing Center, Taiwan – 2005/12/26

4. Government Scholarship for Undergraduate Student ($3,000 plus tuition waiver per annum; government-supported student), Ministry of Education, Taiwan – 1999/09 - 2003/06

Scientific, Writing, and Other Technical Training

1. The Workshop on Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) – National Taipei University of Business – 2016/02/3-4

2. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Training Course I – National Taiwan University, Taiwan – 2016/01/20-21 

3. The Pre-conference Workshop on Grant Writing and Publishing – the 21st annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Santa Fe, USA – 2014/7/16 

4. The Workshop on SEM and Amos: Mediation & Moderation – National Taipei College of Business – 2014/05/24-25 

5. The Workshop on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) – National Taipei College of Business – 2014/01/13-14 

6. The Workshop on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) – Taiwanese Association of Statistical Methodology, Taipei, Taiwan – 2014/01/3-5 

7. The Pre-conference Workshop on Multilevel Models as Structural Equations and Publishing – the 20th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Hong Kong, China – 2013/7/9 

8. The Interdisciplinary Researcher Cultivation Workshop of Cognitive Neuroscience – The Eighth Annual Summer Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Taipei, Taiwan – 2011/07/05-07 

Professional Affiliation

• • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

  • Asia Pacific Society of Speech, Language and Hearing

  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society

  • International Literacy Association

  • Linguistic Society of Taiwan

  • Society for the Scientific Study of Reading

  • Taiwan Academy for Learning Disabilities

  • Taiwan Communication Disorder Association