Yao-Ting Sung
National Taiwan Normal University

Dr. Yao-Ting Sung is chair-professor and the Vice President of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taipei, Taiwan. He teaches and conducts research in language acquisition and learning, educational psychology, computer-assisted learning, and assessment. He is also leading two research centers in NTNU. The first one is the Center of Learning Technology for Chinese, which is the world-renowned center for using advanced technology in Chinese language learning. The second is the Research Center of Psychological and Educational Testing, which is responsible for the national entrance examination for senior high schools and vocational high schools in Taiwan. He also directs research teams that study mobile learning, automated evaluation of text readability, computerized diagnostic assessments and career assessments. Publishing more than 100 world-leading journal articles, Dr. Sung’s research and practices contribute to the fields of language, educational psychology and assessment, and he has received numerous prestigious research awards in Taiwan, including the award of outstanding research of Ministry of Science and Technology.

Dr. Sung is now serving as the editorial board members of several international journals as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Research in Education Sciences and the editor of the Chinese Language Learning Sciences series published in Springer.