【活動簡介】：

Invited speaker:
James F Steed


B.A. Art Education
M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language, Southern Illinois University 1976

In his long career, besides serving full-time at the following schools, he has directed and trained teachers at four private language centers, established two schools (one in San Francisco and one in Ningbo, China), and set up language programs for Sun Moon Star Ltd and China Petroleum, both in Taipei.

1976 - 1977
Tunghai University
1978 - 1984
National Taiwan University
1984 - 1994
Language Resource Institute San Francisco/Taipei
1994 - 2000
National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology
2000-2015
National University of Kaohsiung
2016 Retired from Teaching

Currently Chief Editor at James Steed English Editing for Scientific and Medical Research Papers

His areas of expertise are Art, Teaching English to Non-native speakers, Second Language Acquisition, Writing, Teacher Training.


In this speech, James plans to give a brief talk on how to prepare and present a student-centered content class in English without speaking perfect English.

He will discuss how slowly changed from a teacher-centered lecturer to a student-center facilitator.

He will introduce easy to follow approaches to materials preparation as class facilitation.