 2001
- Ph.D. Program Stage
Comprehensive exam:
I passed my comprehensive exam in December, 2000. I wrote the comprehensive
exam in the following three areas:
(1) ESL/EFL writing and second language education;
(2) theoretical framework and educational practice: first language's influence
on second language acquisition, computer-mediated communication (CMC)
technology and theoretical framework;
(3) research and inquiry: ethnographic approaches and their implications
for second language education.
Proposal:
My proposal was approved by the CTL (curriculum, teaching, and learning)
Department and was submitted to EERC (Education Ethics Review Committee)
for approval on May 22, 2001.
Dissertation title:
Creating a Knowledge-Building EFL Writing Environment through Design Experiments
Using Computer-Mediated Communication Technology
Dissertation committee:
Supervisor: Dr. Earl Woodruff
Member: Dr. Alister Cumming
Member: Dr. Marlene Scardamalia
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2001
On January 11, 2001, Daniel was officially informed by Dept. of CTL
(Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning [http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/depts/ctl/])
to have successfully completed the Departmental Doctoral Comprehensive
Examination held in December, 2000. He has beome a Ph.D. candidate since
then. He can now proceed to his thesis work.
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1999
Daniel Teng-Lung Peng is currently a Ph.D. candidate at OISE/UT (Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, Ontario,
Canada). His specialization is Second Language Education. He is also
interested in computer-mediated communication technology (henceforth
CMC technology), especially in computer-based EFL learning and teaching.
His research interests involve Academic Writing in English, CMC technology,
and computer-supported intentional learning environment.
The courses taken at OISE/UT are as follows:
- CTL1799H SPECIAL TOPIC
IN CURRICULUM: ACADEMIC WRITING
- CTL3801H COLLOQUIUM IN
2ND LANGAUGE EDUCATION
- CTL3802H MULTILINGUAL/MULTICULTURAL
EDUCATION
- CTL1611H CMC DISTANCE
EDUCATION
- CTL3008H CRITICAL PEDAGOGY,
LANGUAGE & MINORITY STUDENTS
- CTL3020H WRITING IN A
SECOND LANGUAGE
- CTL1601H COMPUTER-BASED
INSTRUCTION
- CTL3999H SPECIAL TOPIC
IN 2ND LANGUAGE: PROCESSING 2ND LANGUAGE DATA,
In Progress
The University of Toronto: (http://www.utoronto.ca)
OISE/UT, the University
of Toronto: (http://www.oise.utoronto.ca)
Modern Language Center,
OISE/UT, the University of Toronto: (http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/MLC)
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1998
Daniel Teng-Lung Peng
earned his M.Ed. degree in English Language Arts, Faculty of Education,
at the University of Victoria, B.C., Canada in 1998.
The courses taken at UVic
(the University of Victoria) are as follows:
- ED-B
491 Principles of Teaching English as a Second Language
- ED-B 540 Research in Curriculum
and Instruction -- Language and Reading
- ED-B 591 Special Topic
in Education: Critical Literacies
- ED-B 591 Special Topic
in Education: Aesthetics in Literacy
- ED-B 591 Special Topic
in Education: The Selection and Use of Communicaiton Instruction Technology
- LING509 Sociolinguistics
- ED-B 543 The Language
Process in School Curriculum
- ED-B 546 Interpretation
and Analysis of Language Arts Research
- ED-B 597 Comprehensive
Examinations (August 11, 1998)
- ED-B 598 Master's Thesis
Project
M.Ed. Project: A
Genre Approach to Teaching Argumentative Essays: A Computer-Based
Instructional Project for Enhancing ESL/EFL Students' Essay Writing
Strategies Using TOEFL's TWE Essays.
The
University of Victoria, B.C., Canada: (http://www.uvic.ca)
Faculty of Education, the University
of Canada: (http://www.educ.uvic.ca/)
M.Ed.
Project: (http://netcity2.web.hinet.net/UserData/tlpeng/preliminary.htm)
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