fulbright Taiwan online journal

fulbright Taiwan online journal

Author: Catherine Compton-Lilly 康凱欣

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Dr. Compton-Lilly teaches courses in literacy studies and works with professional development schools in at the University of South Carolina. She has a passion for helping teachers to support children in learning to read and write. Her interests include examining how time operates as a contextual factor in children’s lives as they progress through school and construct their identities as students and readers. Dr. Compton-Lilly is the author/editor of several books and has published widely in educational journals.

Taiwan Adventures: Reflections from a Second-Generation Fulbright Scholar

From September 1963 until August 1964, my father was part of a team of scholars from Stanford University who came to Taiwan to help establish the National Taiwan University International Chinese Language Program (ICLP). My two sisters, my mother (Barbara) and I joined him that year in Taipei.  My oldest sister (Margaret), was 4 years old, I was three years old, and my youngest sister (Susie) was only one.  I have a few memories of that year and a stack of letters that my father wrote to my grandmother.  While my father was primarily funded by Stanford University during his time in Taiwan, he applied for and received a travel grant from the Taiwan Fulbright Foundation. As I complete my six-month appointment as a Fulbright scholar at National Tsing Hua University, I take this journaling opportunity to weave together a few of my thoughts and with quotes from letters written in 1963 and 1964. Traveling from San Francisco to Taipei with three young children was difficult.  As my father reported: We got to Taipei in really bad shape; the kids fell asleep (all three of  them) about 10 minutes before the CAT [China Air] flight landed. The change of weather

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