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More on Local Professors   On August 27, I posted a few of my of my opinions about local professors. For some reason, some readers found them offensive. One reader contacted me asking all about my educational qualifications and what Western professors I had met and worked with. I suppose he was questioning what authority I had to say anything about Western academics. In fact, I want to put what I said about Taiwanese professors in perspective. Not everything I have to say about local professors is good. Today, I will say some bad things .   One of the excellent local professors whom I have referred to earlier teaches at National Chayi University of Education. Let's make everything transparent. I'm talking about Dr. Chen Su-chiao. Last year she published The Spread of English in Taiwan which you can buy at Crane Books. Anyway, Dr. Chen asked me if I was interested in presenting a paper at the conference of their Department of Applied English. I said sure, and sent her an abstract from a project I was doing on some aspects of student perceptions about English, which she sent to the department. Months and months later, I got a reply from them rejecting my abstract because it did not give sufficient detail of my findings.   I thought this was very strange. I had submitted the abstract something like 6 months before the conference. How could I possible know the details of my findings then because I hadn't even done the study yet. Then, to make matters even more inexplicable, almost the same week, I got a letter from the Hawaii International Conference on Business accepting an almost identical abstract. I guess NCUE has a higher standard than an international business conference. I guess.   It all became clear after a colleague at MCU explained the situation to me. Taiwanese professors only ever do one piece of research. Then they present and publish it over and over and over again. It's expected that you know the results for your study because you did it years ago.   Of course. That must be it.   So there are a lot of bad professors around - no doubt about that. Ironically, the guy who signed the letter rejecting my abstract did not have a Taiwanese name. It would appear that this rather unusual local standard of scholarship is not restricted to Taiwanese.   4:08:10 PM     More on Local Professors   On August 27, I posted a few of my of my opinions about local professors. For some reason, some readers found them offensive. One reader contacted me asking all about my educational qualifications and what Western professors I had met and worked with. I suppose he was questioning what authority I had to say anything about Western academics. In fact, I want to put what I said about Taiwanese professors in perspective. Not everything I have to say about local professors is good. Today, I will say some bad things .   One of the excellent local professors whom I have referred to earlier teaches at National Chayi University of Education. Let's make everything transparent. I'm talking about Dr. Chen Su-chiao. Last year she published The Spread of English in Taiwan which you can buy at Crane Books. Anyway, Dr. Chen asked me if I was interested in presenting a paper at the conference of their Department of Applied English. I said sure, and sent her an abstract from a project I was doing on some aspects of student perceptions about English, which she sent to the department. Months and months later, I got a reply from them rejecting my abstract because it did not give sufficient detail of my findings.   I thought this was very strange. I had submitted the abstract something like 6 months before the conference. How could I possible know the details of my findings then because I hadn't even done the study yet. Then, to make matters even more inexplicable, almost the same week, I got a letter from the Hawaii International Conference on Business accepting an almost identical abstract. I guess NCUE has a higher standard than an international business conference. I guess.   It all became clear after a colleague at MCU explained the situation to me. Taiwanese professors only ever do one piece of research. Then they present and publish it over and over and over again. It's expected that you know the results for your study because you did it years ago.   Of course. That must be it.   So there are a lot of bad professors around - no doubt about that. Ironically, the guy who signed the letter rejecting my abstract did not have a Taiwanese name. It would appear that this rather unusual local standard of scholarship is not restricted to Taiwanese.   4:08:10 PM    [Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "commentLink" hasn't been defined.]

More on Local Professors   On August 27, I posted some of my opinions about local professors. For some reason, some readers found them offensive. One reader contacted me asking all about my educational qualifications and what Western professors I had met and worked with. I suppose he was questioning what authority I had to say anything about Western academics. In fact, I want to put what I said about Taiwanese professors in perspective. One of the excellent local professors whom I have referred to teaches at National Chayi University of Education. Let's make everything transparent. I'm talking about Dr. Chen Su-chiao. Last year she published The Spread of English in Taiwan which you can buy at Crane Books. Anyway, Dr. Chen asked me if I was interested in presenting a paper at the conference of their Department of Applied English. I said sure, and sent her an abstract from a project I was doing on some aspects of student perceptions about English, which she sent to the department. Months and months later, I got a reply from them rejecting my abstract because it did not give sufficient detail of my findings.   I thought this was very strange. I had submitted the abstract something like 6 months before the conference. How could I possible know the details of my findings then because I hadn't even done the study yet. Then, to make matters even more inexplicable, almost the same week, I got a letter from the Hawaii International Conference on Business accepting an almost identical abstract. I guess NCUE has a higher standard than an international business conference. I guess.   It all became clear after a colleague at MCU explained the situation to me. Taiwanese professors only ever do one piece of research. Then they present and publish it over and over and over again. It's expected that you know the results for your study because you did it years ago.   Of course. That must be it.   So there are a lot of bad professors around - no doubt about that. Ironically, the guy who signed the letter rejecting my abstract did not have a Taiwanese name. It would appear that this rather unusual local standard of scholarship is not restricted to Taiwanese.     4:05:24 PM     More on Local Professors   On August 27, I posted some of my opinions about local professors. For some reason, some readers found them offensive. One reader contacted me asking all about my educational qualifications and what Western professors I had met and worked with. I suppose he was questioning what authority I had to say anything about Western academics. In fact, I want to put what I said about Taiwanese professors in perspective. One of the excellent local professors whom I have referred to teaches at National Chayi University of Education. Let's make everything transparent. I'm talking about Dr. Chen Su-chiao. Last year she published The Spread of English in Taiwan which you can buy at Crane Books. Anyway, Dr. Chen asked me if I was interested in presenting a paper at the conference of their Department of Applied English. I said sure, and sent her an abstract from a project I was doing on some aspects of student perceptions about English, which she sent to the department. Months and months later, I got a reply from them rejecting my abstract because it did not give sufficient detail of my findings.   I thought this was very strange. I had submitted the abstract something like 6 months before the conference. How could I possible know the details of my findings then because I hadn't even done the study yet. Then, to make matters even more inexplicable, almost the same week, I got a letter from the Hawaii International Conference on Business accepting an almost identical abstract. I guess NCUE has a higher standard than an international business conference. I guess.   It all became clear after a colleague at MCU explained the situation to me. Taiwanese professors only ever do one piece of research. Then they present and publish it over and over and over again. It's expected that you know the results for your study because you did it years ago.   Of course. That must be it.   So there are a lot of bad professors around - no doubt about that. Ironically, the guy who signed the letter rejecting my abstract did not have a Taiwanese name. It would appear that this rather unusual local standard of scholarship is not restricted to Taiwanese.     4:05:24 PM    [Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "commentLink" hasn't been defined.]

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