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Associate Professor

Yi-Chen (Dora ) Lan is an Associate Professor, with Ph.D in early childhood education from the Macquarie University, Sydney.  She has been teaching English at TUT since 1990.  She’s specialized in bilingual education and English as a foreign language.

Master of Arts : Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Central Missouri State University, U.S.A.

Bachelor of Arts: Department of Foreign Language and Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan , R.O.C.

Thesis title:

Lan, Y.-C. (2013). Mothers' ideas about home-based English teaching and learning for children prior to school age: A study in Tainan, Taiwan. (Doctoral dissertation, Macquarie University).

Conference Presentations

Lan, Y.-C., Torr, J., & Degotardi, S. (2010, April, 23-25). Taiwanese Mothers'

Motivations for Teaching English to Their Young Children at Home. Paper

presented at the 2010 Asian EFL Journal International Conference, Providence

University, Taiwan.

Lan, Y.-C., Torr, J., & Degotardi, S. (2011, January 4-7). Taiwanese Mothers'

Ideas about Preschoolers Learning English as a Foreign Language: Effects of

Maternal Education. Paper presented at the 2011 Hawaii International

Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Academic Papers

1. Lan, Y.-C., Degotardi, S., & Torr, J. (2011). Factors related to the home teaching of English language to preschool aged children: A Taiwanese study. Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 5(2), 27-48.

2. Lan, Y.-C., Torr, J., & Degotardi, S. (2011). Learning English as a foreign language at home: The practices of Taiwanese mothers and their preschoolers. Journal of Modern Education Review 1(1), 10-21.

3. Lan , Y.-C., Torr , J., & Degotardi, S. (2012). Taiwanese mothers` motivations for teaching English to their young children at home. Child Study in Diverse Contexts, 2(2), 133-144. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5723/csdc.2012.2.2.133

4. Lan , Y.-C., Torr , J., & Degotardi, S. (2013). Taiwanese mothers as their child's first English teacher: Issues and challenges. Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 7(3), 1-18