Hengsyung Jeng
Hengsyung Jeng, Professor Emeritus Professor Hengsyung Jeng (鄭恆雄) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1941. He graduated from Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, in 1963, and received his MA in TESOL in 1968 and Ph.D. in linguistics in 1976 from University of Hawaii, USA. Afterwards, he also did research on linguistics and literature at Stanford University (1982) and Harvard University (2000) as a visiting scholar. He specializes in linguistics, English teaching and testing, contrastive analysis of Chinese and English, linguistic approach to literature, Bunun (an Austronesian language of Taiwan) and taught these courses at NTU and some other universities for more than 40 years from 1968 to 2011.
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comprehension passages and items in the nine English tests in the 1999 college entrance examinations of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China by applying the New Dale-Chall Readability Formula (Chall and Dale 1995a, 1995b). Moreover, Nuttall’s (1996)
different types of questions will also be used to verify the estimations of item difficulty
levels based on the Dale-Chall formula.
Books by Hengsyung Jeng
of the musicality and narrative structures of the two volumes
of Backed Against the Sea. The concept of harmony will be used chiefly
to explain Ye’s monologues superimposed with shorter responses of
other voices. Counterpoint will be used to interpret the longer interactions
between Ye’s monologues and the locutions of other voices. Finally, variation will be used to show how the rhythms, themes, and narrative structures of volume 2 are derived from those of volume 1. (https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781939161789/reading-wang-wenxing/#bookTabs=1)
comprehension passages and items in the nine English tests in the 1999 college entrance examinations of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China by applying the New Dale-Chall Readability Formula (Chall and Dale 1995a, 1995b). Moreover, Nuttall’s (1996)
different types of questions will also be used to verify the estimations of item difficulty
levels based on the Dale-Chall formula.
of the musicality and narrative structures of the two volumes
of Backed Against the Sea. The concept of harmony will be used chiefly
to explain Ye’s monologues superimposed with shorter responses of
other voices. Counterpoint will be used to interpret the longer interactions
between Ye’s monologues and the locutions of other voices. Finally, variation will be used to show how the rhythms, themes, and narrative structures of volume 2 are derived from those of volume 1. (https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781939161789/reading-wang-wenxing/#bookTabs=1)