Job title：Professor
Field of study：language policy and language planning, comparative education of language
ZHANG, Zhiguo
Job title：Professor
Field of study：language policy and language planning, comparative education of language
Posts Held:
Director of the SMU Institute for Language Policy and Language Planning. Part-time research fellow of China Foreign Language Strategic Research Center of Nanjing University. Member of Chinese Language Policy and Planning Commission and International Urban Language Commission. Standing member of IAYALS.
Education:
PhD at East China Normal University (2009)
Master’s degrees at Shanghai Normal University (2000),
Bachelor’s degree at Nanchang University (1987).
Research Interests:
Language policy and language planning, and comparative education of language.
Publications:
More than 60 academic papers published in journals, including prestigious journals such as Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Contemporary Linguistics, Modern Foreign Languages, Foreign Language Research, Multilingual and Multicultural Development and Global Chinese.
A monograph entitled A Comparative Study of Language Educational Policies between China and USA: in the Context of Globalization.
Translation of two classic English monographs “Language Policy: a Key Topic of Sociolinguistics “and “Language Management” by Bernard Spolsky.
Research Projects:
A number of projects at various levels, including two National Social Science Fund projects. Awards:
SMU Luo Huang-feng Award for Excellent Doctors (2010), SMU Science and Technology Model (2011), and SMU Outstanding Teacher (2011). Liu Haoqing Excellent Teacher’s Award, second prize (2017), SMU Excellent Paper, second prize (2011), the 11th Shanghai Academic Achievements, first prize (2015)
Academic Activities:
Visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, USA, in 2008 and 2015, respectively; part-time researcher at the China Center for Linguistic and Strategic Studies of Nanjing University.
Teaching Courses: English Grammar, How to Write Academic Papers, Introduction of Linguistics, Introduction of Language Policy and English Lexicology.
