Speakers  & Panelists

Moderators

Friday, September 26, 2025 (Taiwan Time, UTC+08:00)

8:30-9:00: Registration

9:00-9:30: Opening Ceremony

Prof. Chung-I Lin / President & Research Fellow, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan

9:30-10:20: Session One

Topic: The Development of CEFR-T

Moderator: Dr. Jian-Cheng Wu

Speaker: Dr. Ching-Lung Lin

10:20-10:30: Coffee Break 

10:30-11:20: Session Two

Topic: The Imperative of CEFR Adoption for Benchmarking TEFL in Indonesia: Lessons from Southeast Asia

Moderator: Prof. Chun-Yin Doris Chen

Speaker: Prof. Fuad Abdul Hamied / Executive Director, AsTEN Teacher Education Quality Assurance Agency

11:20-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-12:20: Session Three

Topic: Aligning for Excellence: The CEFR’s Influence on Malaysian Educational Policy

Moderator: Prof. Chih-Cheng Lin

Speaker: Dr. Nooreen Binti Noordin / Associate Professor, Department of Language and Humanities Education Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia

12:20-13:30: Lunch

13:30-14:20: Session Four

Topic: The CEFR and Foreign Language Education in Asia –Pondering Incorporation, Adaptation and Alignment as a Way forward

Moderator: Prof. Chao-Chang Wang

Speaker: Prof. Maria Gabriela Schmidt / Special Appointed Professor, Department of German Literature and Linguistics, College of Humanities and Sciences Nihon University 

14:20-14:30: Coffee Break

14:30-15:20: Session Five

Topic: Advancing CEFR-Based Language Assessment: Placing People and Language at the Centre

Moderator: Prof. Siaw-Fong Chung

Speaker: Prof. Barry O’Sullivan OBE / Director of British Council English Language Research

15:20-15:30: Coffee Break

15:30-16:20: Panel Discussion

Topic: CEFR for National English Education: Taiwan’s Policy, Assessment, and Teacher Capacity — Insights from Monsoon Asia/以 CEFR 引導國家英語教育：臺灣的政策、評量與師資對接（季風亞洲觀點）

Moderator: Dr. Yi-Ming Chou

Panelists: 

Prof. Barry O’Sullivan OBE / Director of British Council English Language Research

Dr. Nooreen Binti Noordin / Associate Professor, Department of Language and Humanities Education Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia

Prof. Maria Gabriela Schmidt / Special Appointed Professor, Department of German Literature and Linguistics, College of Humanities and Sciences Nihon University 

Prof. Wen-Ta Tseng / Professor, Department of Applied Foreign Languages, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Prof. Zhao-Ming Gao / Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

16:20-16:30: Closing Remarks & Farewell

Closing Speaker: Dr. Jian-Cheng Wu / Associate Research Fellow & Director of Research Center for Translation, Compilation, and Language Education