Liu Yu

Name: Liu Yu

Research direction: Language teaching theory and application; ESP; Intercultural communication

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E-mail: emilyliuyu@chd.edu.cn

Introduction: Liu Yu, born in May 1966 in Shanghai. She is an associate professor in the school of foreign languages, Chang’an University, and a master's tutor in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in Foreign Languages. Her research interests include language teaching theory and application, ESP and intercultural communication.

She has a bachelor's degree in English from Shanghai Maritime University and a master's degree in English education from the University of Sydney. Since 1988, she has been engaged in foreign language teaching and research in Colleges and universities. In 1994 and 2001, she studied communicative teaching method in Xi'an Jiaotong University and Xi'an Institute of foreign languages, British and American literature. In 2004. she went to Australia for a short-term study. In 2013, she went to central Washington University in the United States as a visiting scholar. She has won many awards, such as excellent teacher, model of teacher's ethics, excellent Communist Party member, advanced scientific research worker and excellent teaching achievement award of Chang’an University.

In recent years, more than ten research papers have been published in core and important journals. She edited and published more than ten textbooks. She has presided over and participated in more than ten vertical/horizontal and provincial/school level research projects, including one key teaching and research project in Shaanxi Province, one second prize of provincial teaching excellent achievement award and two second prize of school level teaching excellent achievement award. She offers elementary English, College English, English teaching methods, ESP and Academic English writing for ethnic students, undergraduates, postgraduates and doctoral students.