About
I am an applied linguist, educator, and a wannabe artist.
My linguistics work examines how languages live, change, and persist in multilingual societies. I am particularly interested in the role that policy plays in processes of language management.
My PhD research, Reviving Bú‑gí: An Investigation of Language Policy and Language Management in Taiwan, included three studies that address the aspects of status planning, acquisition planning, and corpus planning of the local and indigenous languages of Taiwan.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Linguistics and English Language
- University of Edinburgh —
- Master of Science (MSc), Applied Linguistics
- University of Edinburgh —
- Bachelor of Arts (BA), Chinese and English Language Teaching & Learning
- North Central College & Tunghai University —
Research interests
- Language Policy and Planning (LPP), Discursive Approaches to Language Policy (DALP)
- Heritage/Additional language acquisition
- Language vitality and revitalization
- Language and identity; decolonization
- Language activism; digital infrastructures
- Taiwanese languages; Southern Min varieties
- Sino-Tibetian language varieties
- Uralic languages
Research & technical skills
- Content & policy analysis
- Ethnography
- Digitally Mediated Discourse Analysis
- Corpus construction & analysis
- HTML, CSS
- Python, R
- Excel / Google Sheets
Academic & educational activities
Publications & papers
- Huan‑Wells, J. (2022). Mandarin‑plus to Mandarin‑inclusive: Conceptualising the new pluralistic language policy in Taiwan. Multiethnica, 42, 45–62. https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-505199
- Wells, J. (2019). Mandarin‑plus to Mandarin‑Inclusive: Conceptualising Language Policy in Taiwan [Conference paper]. Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference, Toronto, Canada.
I publish as József Huan‑Wells.
Teaching
University
- Issues in Applied Linguistics (postgraduate)
- Linguistics and English Language 1A (undergraduate)
- Linguistics and English Language 1B (undergraduate)
K–12
- English as a New Language (grades 6-8)
- Spanish–English Bilingual Special Education (grades 6–8)
- Spanish Language Arts (grades 6–8)
- French Language Arts (grades 6–8)
- Reading & Math Intervention / Special Education (grades 6–12)
Other
- Reviewer, Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (UK)
- Co‑ordinator, Language in Context Seminars, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
- Junior Visiting Scholar, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica–