1. Guo, Y.-J. & Lin, S. (2017) Political engagement via keyboards: A case study on Taiwanese youth’s identity construction in online political discourse. The 23rd Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO), University of California, Santa Barbara.
2. Lin, S. (2017) 'Taiwanese hardly ever give opinion'. Intercultural classroom communication in higher education in Taiwan. Paper presented in 2017 Conference on Intercultural Talent Development in the Era of Globalization (Joint International Conference on Human Resource Development, 2017 IHRD), National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei.
3. Lin, S. (2017) Second language learners as mothers: Educating Marriage-migrants to educate their children. Imagining the Future: Community Innovation and Social Resilience in Asia. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
4. Lin, S. & Guo, Y.-J. (2015) Translanguaging and political engagement: Collaborative transgression of language and political norms in social media. Paper presented in the 4th International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity (LED 2015), University of Auckland, New Zealand.
5. Lee, M.-H. & Lin, S. (2015) English extensive reading versus English textbook reading: Agency, identity, and the linguistic market in Taiwan. Paper presented in the 12th Annual Wenshan International Conference, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan.
6. Lin, S. (2015). Adult Mandarin education and globalization: Neoliberal management of linguistic minorities in Taiwan. Paper presented at the International Conference of the Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centering and (de)standardization, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
7. Guo, Y.-J., & Lin, S. (2015). L2 academic discourse socialization through group discussion in TESOL. Paper presented at the CAES International Conference 2015 - Faces of English: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
8. Lin, S. (2015) “Then you can ride the scooter to run away!” Social Positioning of Marriage Immigrants in Adult Mandarin Education in Taiwan. Paper presented in the American Association of Applied Linguistics 2015 Conference, Toronto, Canada.
9. Lee, M.-H. & Lin, S. (2015) Beyond Reading Skills in Extensive Reading with Book Talks: Identity Construction through Critical Thinking. Paper presented in the American Association of Applied Linguistics 2015 Conference, Toronto, Canada.
10. Lee, M.-H. & Lin, S. (2014) Identity construction in book talks of young adult literature: A case study of English extensive reading in Taiwan. Paper presented in the Sixth CLaSIC Conference, Singapore.
11. Lin, S. (2014) English-medium instruction, class participation, and identity construction in internationalized university classrooms in Taiwan. Paper presented in Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
12. Lin, S. (2013) Class wreckage and class re-positioning: Narratives of Japanese-educated Taiwanese. Paper presented in the AERA Meeting, San Francisco, California. (invited presidential panel “Poverty and Privilege in the Changing Global Landscape: Education and the Production of New Forms of Social Stratification”)
13. Lin, S. (2012) “I love to watch NHK most!” Japanese-educated Taiwanese elders construct multilingual, educated identities.Paper presented in the American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Francisco, California
14. Lin, S. (2011). Modernity as discourse: Symbolic construction of (il)literacy in contemporary Taiwan. Paper presented in the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Montreal, Canada
15. Lin, S., Miller, P. J., Fung, H., & Chen, E. C. (2011). Listening matters but it matters more in Taipei than Longwood: A longitudinal study of young children's narrative participation. Paper presented in the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Canada
16. Lin, S. (2010) Historical displacement, transnational migration, and linguistic inequality: Adult literacy and construction of “social children” in Taiwan. Paper presented in the Council on Anthropology and Education’s New Scholar Invited Poster Session in the American Anthropology Association Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
17. Lin, S. (2010) When the transnational meet the traditional: Constructing female marriage immigrants and elderly Taiwanese as “social children” in contemporary Taiwan. Paper presented at the National Communication Association, San Francisco, California
18. Lin, S. (2009) Linguistic marginalization through television viewing. Paper presented at the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, Illinois. (invited panel “Ethnographic Research in Cultural Psychology”)
19. Chen, E. C., Fung, H., Miller, P. J., Lin, S. (2007) Crafting selves in cultural contexts through everyday storytelling. Seventh Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
20. Lin, S. (2007) Taiwanese elders, Vietnamese mothers: Language socialization in an adult education program in rural Taiwan. American Association of Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, California.
21. Miller, P. J., Lin, S., Chen, E. C., Fung, H., Licciardello, V. (2007) Becoming active has distinct meanings: Taiwanese and Euro-American children's changing participation in personal storytelling. The Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
22. Lin, S. (2007) Construction of selves in the sitting room. The Sixth Annual Conference of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania.
23. Chen, E. C., Lin, S., Miller, P. J., Fung, H. (2005) Personal storytelling practices with young children in Euro-American and Taiwanese families: A longitudinal study of early socialization. Midwestern Conference on Culture, Language, and Cognition, Chicago, Illinois.
24. Lin, S. (2005) From vernacular to Mandarin: A sociohistorical perspective on the adult literacy program in Taiwan. International and Intercultural Communication Association, Taipei, Taiwan.
25. Chen, E. C., Lin, S., Miller, P. J., Fung, H. (2005) Storytelling as a medium of socialization: A follow-up study of narrative practices in Taiwanese and Euro-American families. The Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
26. Lin, S. (2004) Monolingual elders and multilingual TV. American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Meetings, Portland, Oregon.
27. McCarthey, S. J., Lin, S., & Guo, Y. (2003) Sociocultural case studies of biliteracy development. National Reading Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona.
28. McCarthey, S. J., Garcia, G. E., Lopez, A., Lin, S., & Guo, Y. (2003) Understanding writing contexts for English language learners. American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois.