Chen-Cheng Chun is the Dean of the Office of International Affairs, Director of the Center of Chinese Culture and Language, and a professor at the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language at the National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan. He has been a multiple-time recipient of the Special Outstanding Talent Award from the National Science and Technology Council in recognition of his sustained contributions to the field. Professor Chun has pioneered four major streams in the fields of Chinese language education and language revitalization in Taiwan: (1) Hakka-English bilingual education, (2) Chinese language education in international schools, (3) education for transnational students, and (4) immigrant Chinese language education. Several of his research findings have been incorporated into the foundational knowledge used in the development of both local and central government language policies.Der-Hwa Victoria Rau is an Austronesian linguist and professor at the Institute of Linguistics at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan, where she has advised many doctoral dissertations and MA theses in L2 Chinese Language Teaching. She was a recipient of the Taiwan Indigenous Language Promotion Individual Achievement Award in 2023. She was funded by the Endangered Language Documentation Program, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London to lead an interdisciplinary research team to document and conserve the Yami (Tao) language in collaboration with the indigenous community on Orchid Island. She has also created massive open online courses (MOOCs) for the Indonesian and Philippine languages to promote learning of Western Austronesian languages for Chinese speakers. During her doctoral training at Cornell University, after serving as a Chinese instructor in the FALCON-Chinese program, she founded the Ithaca Chinese School.
