作者簡介

張碧珠 , Pearl Chang ichard A. Roshay

　Richard is an experienced and enthusiastic ESL
instructor and teacher trainer having taught in Europe
(Paris, France) and the Middle East (The United Arab
Emirates) for many years.
　　While having been born and educated in the USA
(Oregon), Richard has lived his entire professional life
abroad.
　　Throughout his career, Richard has been keenly
involved in developing ESL materials for students and
teachers alike. In Tunisia, he trialed the new high school
ESL textbooks developed by the British Council and the
Ford Foundation. In France, he began developing ESL and
ESP materials for business, finance, real estate and even
shipping. In Saudi Arabia, his talents for materials
development were such that he was asked to re-write the
Royal Saudi Air Force English Language course books.
Shortly after arriving in the UAE, Richard put together the
first materials development team for the Higher Colleges of
Technology, a team which went on to produce five fully-
integrated and themed books while heading up teams in
both the Men’s (AAMC) and Women’s (AAWC) college.
　　Among his major credits, Richard cites his founding of
his own language school in Paris, France The American
Teachers’ Guild, over twenty years of professional peer
development and, not the least, is one of the founding
members of TESOL Arabia – now the largest TESOL event
in the Middle East and North Africa region.
　　Richard is still very active in materials development
and most notably for his work in vocabulary acquisition. He
is the developer of a highly successful tool – Visual
Dictionaries. These dictionaries, coupled with a range of
Visual Dictation activities ensure a quick, fun and enduring
experience in learning new vocabulary easily.
　　Richard was recently appointed an official consultant
for EERC and has made two trips to Taiwan to work with
EERC ESL instructors and in designing, developing and
delivering excellent workshops and presentations.


Pearl Chang is the Executive Secretary of English
Education Resource Center (EERC) as well the co-Project
Designer, both under the auspices of the Taiwanese MOE.
　　Ms. Chang received her MA in TESOL from the National
Taiwan Normal University in 2002. In 2005, she was
sponsored by Taiwan MOE to attend the well-known EFL
overseas training course at Georgetown University.
　　Even after twenty-eight years as an EFL instructor in
secondary education, she continues to exemplify what it
means to be a life-long learner as she is currently working
on her doctorate (Curriculum, Instruction and
Assessment) through the Education Department of Walden
University in the US.
　　In the course of her studies, Ms. Chang attended a
number of courses and training via the University of
Oregon, sponsored by the US State Department. This
period proved to be pivotal in her pedagogical
development as she remains today to be a strong advocate
of Differentiated Instruction, Project/Problem Based
Learning and the effective use of Graphic Organizers in the
classroom. Over the last few years, Ms. Chang has been
instrumental in the design and implementation of a nation-
wide teacher development program. Her professional
development initiatives have resulted in the creation of
teaching teams called Professional Learning Communities
(PLCs) and SEED Teachers both of which contribute to the
growth and development of ESL faculties in the secondary
system across Taiwan.
　　A true academic, Ms. Chang also has a wide range of
publications to her credit (notably a translation of How to
Differentiate Instruction in Mixed Ability Classroom written
by Carol Ann Tomlinson, Write the Best 20 and Show Me
the Way) as well as a long history of presenting both at
the national and international levels, most recently
presenting at CamTESOL in Phnom Penh, Cambodia,
TESOL Convention in New York and previously at the
International Reading Association in Reno-Nevada, USA.
　　Ms. Chang is the initiator and architect of the Pathways
to Listening series. Perhaps the most surprising outcome of
the project has been her return to the classroom as she
reaps the benefit of being both a developer and an end-
user, demonstrating her life-long commitment to the
teaching and learning of English here in Taiwan.