He Xianzhong

Name: He Xianzhong

Research direction: Discourse Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Socio-semiotics; Multimodal Analysis; English Language Testing; Teaching Methodology

Contact number: 029-82335098

E-mail: xianzhongh@126.com

Introduction: He Xianzhong, born in Weinan City, Shanxi Province, is an associate professor in the Department of English, School of foreign languages, Chang'an University. He once served as the head of the Department of English, and the tutor of foreign language linguistics and applied linguistics. From 1984 to 1988, he studied English in the Department of foreign languages of Shanghai Maritime University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. From 1999 to 2000, he studied in the postgraduate course of Applied Linguistics and English Teaching (pgdelt) in Nanyang Polytechnic University of Singapore, and obtained a diploma. From 2010 to 2012, he studied in Nanyang Polytechnic University of Singapore and obtained a master's degree in Linguistics and applied linguistics. From 2013 to 2014, a visiting scholar from the University of South Denmark, Denmark, studied multimodal discourse analysis. He has been teaching English major and English master's degree students. He has been awarded excellent teacher, excellent tutor of graduation thesis, teaching achievement award of the University and provincial level for many times. In 1999, he participated in the taking listening and speaking as a breakthrough to comprehensively improve students' English language comprehensive quality, which won the second prize of Shaanxi Provincial Teaching Achievement Award [No. sjx99358]. The main undergraduate teaching courses are: Basic English, advanced English, academic English writing, English practical writing, foreign trade correspondence, English teaching methods, etc.; English master's courses include: Discourse Analysis and English Testing. In 2016, he presided over and completed the postgraduate teaching reform project of Chang'an University: the construction of teaching materials and subject literature resource database of discourse analysis [No. 16025]. Main research areas: (critical) discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, language testing and teaching methods.