Job title：Professor
Field of study：Second language writing; applied linguistics, and second language acquisition
Posts Held:
Professor of English and Supervisor for MA students at SMU; former Associate Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Director of the International Office and Deputy Director of the President’s Office of Shanghai Institute of Technology.
Education:
Visiting Scholar at Birmingham University in United Kingdom from 2018 to 2019
Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University in United States from 2012 to 2013
PhD of Queensland University of Technology in Australia in 2007
MA of Fudan University in 2003
BA of Shaanxi Normal University in 1990.
Research Interests:
Second language writing; applied linguistics, and second language acquisition
Publications:
Nearly 50 papers published in many domestic and international refereed journals such as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Journal of Second Language Writing, English for Specific Purposes, Language Awareness, TESL-EJ, The Journal of Asia TEFL, Studies in Higher Education, Modern Foreign Languages, Journal of Foreign Languages, Rhetoric Studies and Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice.
A monograph based on his doctoral thesis published in Australia in 2007.
Research Projects:
An intercultural rhetoric perspective into Chinese scholars’ experience in international publishing granted by National Social Science Fund of China (Grant No.: 14BYY151).
Academic Activities:
Senior visiting scholar, in collaboration with Professor Paul Kei Matsuda at Arizona State University from May 2012 to May 2013.
Senior visiting scholar, in collaboration with Dr. Nickolas Groom at Arizona State University from May 2012 to May 2013.
