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Books

1. Student-initiated question sequences in classes taught by American and Taiwanese teaching assistants.  Ph.D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, USA, 1985.

2. Public speaking in English for Chinese students.  Taipei:  Crane Publishing Company, Ltd., 1994. 

3. Using authentic video in English language teaching: Tips for Taiwan's teachers. Taipei: Crane Publishing Company, Ltd., 1996.

4. Names in the "Harry Potter" Books: Etymology and Word Play.  Taipei: Crane Publishing Company, Ltd., 2005.


Articles and Miscellaneous Publications

1. A structural comparison of American English and Farsi expository writing. Papers in Linguistics, 15(3), 165-180, 1982.

2. The other side of classroom discourse: What happens when the students are native speakers and the teacher uses L2? In Labarca, A., & Bailey, L.M. (Eds.), Issues in L2: Theory as practice/practice as theory (pp. 217-232).  Norwood, NJ:  Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1990.

3. Satellite TV as foreign language teaching resource. English Teaching and Learning, 15 (4), 33-44, 1991.

4. Using music to generate student oral production of descriptive stories.  English Teaching and Learning, 18(2), 72-82., 1993.

5. Tips for using satellite TV news stories.  Thai TESOL Bulletin, 7(1), 31-33, 1994.

6. Tell it with music.  TESOL Journal, 4(3), 28, 1995.

7. How to choose and use situation comedies in ELT.  Language Teaching—The Korea TESOL Journal, 3(2), 54-58, 1995.

8. Off-air video for high school English classes: Some considerations.  In H.H. Chung (Ed.), Collection of English language teaching articles 2 (pp. 112-120).  Y. H. Chen (Taiwan Provincial Bureau of Education), 1996.

9. Using videotaped lectures for listening practice--student views.  In C. S. Heng, M. A. Quayum, & R. Talif (Eds.), Diverse voices: Readings in language, literature, and culture. (pp. 144-152).  Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, 2000.

10. Teaching a listening and speaking course with DVD films: Can it be done?  In  H. C. Liou, J. E. Katchen, and H. Wang (Eds.),  Lingua Tsing Hua (pp. 221-236)  Taipei: Crane, 2003.

11. Do-it-yourself video role models (with Barbara Morris and Lilia Savova).  Essential Teacher, 2(1), 40-43, 2005.


1. Thanksgiving activities with "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving".  Video Rising, 5(2), 7, 1993.

2. Video in Taiwan—good potential.  Small Screen, 6(1), 7, 1993.

3. The relationship between parents and children; In praise of mediocrity; American cuisine and eating habits; Ethnic diversity and customs through wedding ceremonies.  In F.  F. Tsao (Ed.), Video and Culture (pp. 72-88; 89-100; 119-128; 156-163).  Part of a preliminary report on the project Language and Culture prepared for the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1994.

4. Why not bring food and drink into the classroom?  Small Screen, 7(2), 2-5, 1994.

5. Using cartoons to spice up holiday lessons.  TESOL Video News, 4(5), 7, 9, 1994.

6. Authentic video in EFL contexts: Not as easy as pie.  TESOL Matters, 6(5), 14, 1996.

7. Teaching American cultures with wedding scenes form "The Deer Hunter".  Video Rising, 8(3), 3-7, 18, 1996.

8. Improving English through Chinese Subtitles and “The X-Files”: A Pilot Study. TESOL Video News, 8(1), 4,9, 1997.

9. Giving a video presentation abroad?  Check the format first.   TESOL Matters, 7(4), 11, 1997.

10. Multichannel television sound (MTS) and bilingual television.  TESOL Matters, 8(1), 12, 1998.

11. Video: Its own medium among many media.  TESOL Matters, 8(6), 19, 1998. 

12. When the teacher's away--A video option.  Small Screen, 12(1), 23-25, 1999.

13. Introducing the digital "still" camera.  Small Screen, 12(1), 28-29, 1999.

14. English and baseball: Some video activities. Video Rising, 11(3), 3-4, 1999.

15. Introducing environmental issues through video.  Small Screen, 13(1), 21-22, 2000.

16. Using TV commercials.  The ETA-ROC Newsletter, 5(1), 15-17, 2001.

17. Some ideas for using movie openings. Video Rising, 13(2), 3-6, 2001.

18. Capturing DVD images for pedagogical applicationsTESOL Video News, 14(2), 2003. (on-line for members)

19. Digitizing Your Old Videotapes: Some Practical Considerations. TESOL Video News, 16(2). (on-line for members)


Reports  and Reviews

1. Video at TESOL ’93.  Video Rising, 5(2), 2-4, 1993.

2. Report on the 28th IATEFL International Conference.  Video Rising, 6(2), 2-4, 1994.

3. Recent video presentations at international conferences, Part I.   Video Rising, 7(2), 10-12, 1995.

4. Recent video presentations at international conferences, Part II.  Video Rising, 7(3), 5-6, 1995.

5. Highlights of video presentations at JALT 1995.  Video Rising, 8(1), 11-13, 1996.

6. Recent video presentations in Thailand.  Video Rising, 8(2), 12-15, 1996.

7. The conference reporter (on TESOL '96 and IATEFL '96).  Video Rising, 8(3), 9-15, 1996.

8. The conference reporter (on JALT ’96, Korea TESOL ’96, ILEC ’96).  Video Rising, 9(1), 9-11, 1997.

9. The conference reporter (on the First Pan-Asian Conference and TESOL ’97). Video Rising, 9(2), 9-12, 1997.

10. The conference reporter (on IATEFL 1997 and MELTA).  Video Rising, 9(3), 13-16, 1997. 

11. The conference reporter (on ILEC ’97 and Thai TESOL).  Video Rising, 10(1), 7-10, 1998.

12. The conference reporter (on TESOL ’98).  Video Rising, 10(2), 12-14, 1998.

13. The conference reporter (on TESOL ’98 continued).  Video Rising, 10(3), 5-8, 1998.

14. The conference reporter (on Alternatives 98, Prague and the Seventh Annual ETA Conference, Taiwan).  Video Rising, 11(1), 79, 1999.

15. The conference reporter (on TESOL 1999).  Video Rising, 11(2), 5-7, 1999.

16. The conference reporter (on IATEFL 1999 and MICOLLAC, Malaysia). Video Rising, 11(3), 5-9, 1999.

17. Three perspectives on video at TESOL 99.  TESOL Video News, 10(2), 6-7, 1999. 

18. The conference reporter (on JALT ’99, The Eighth ETA Conference, and Thai TESOL 2000). Video Rising, 12(1), 5-10, 2000.

19. Video review: IATEFL plenary videos. Small Screen, 13(1), 24-26, 2000.

20. The conference reporter (on TESOL Vancouver). Video Rising, 12(2), 5-9, 2000. 

21. The conference reporter (more on TESOL Vancouver and IATEFL Dublin). Video Rising, 12(3), 7-11, 2000.

22. Summaries of media-related talks given at IATEFL 2000.  Small Screen, 13(2), 16-19, 2000.

23. The conference reporter (on BrazTESOL, JALT, and ETA 2000). Video Rising, 13(1), 6-10, 2001.

24. New developments in video around the world.  TESOL Video News, 12(1), 11-12, 2001.

25. The conference reporter (on Thai TESOL).  Video Rising, 13(2), 6-8, 2001.

26.  New developments in video around the world.  TESOL Video News, 12(1), 11-12, 2001.

27.  English teaching in Taiwan. ESL Magazine, December, 2002.


Editorial Work

1. Katchen, J. E., & Leung, Y. N. (Eds.). (1997).  The proceedings of the fifth international symposium on English teaching.  Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.  349 pages.

2. Katchen, J. E., & Leung, Y. N. (Eds.). (1997).  The proceedings of the sixth international symposium on English teaching.  Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.  691 pages.

3. Katchen, J. E., & Leung, Y. N. (Eds.). (1998).  The proceedings of the seventh international symposium on English teaching.  Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.  Two volumes, total 976 pages.

4. Katchen, J. E., & Leung, Y. N. (Eds.). (1999).  The proceedings of the eighth international symposium on English teaching.  Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.  644 pages.

5. Katchen, J. E., & Leung, Y. N. (Eds.). (2000).  The proceedings of the ninth international symposium on English teaching.  Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.  678 pages.

6. Katchen, J. E., & Leung, Y. N. (Eds.).  (2002).  Selected papers from the Fourth Pan-Asian Conference/ Eleventh  International Symposium on English teaching.  Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.  Two volumes (volume one on paper,  643 pages and CD-ROM; volume 2 CD-ROM). 

7. Liou, H. C., Katchen, J. E., & Wang, H. (Eds.).  (2003).  Lingua Tsing Hua: A 20th anniversary commemorative anthology.  Taipei: Crane.  313 pages.


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