Wang Lifei, dean, professor, doctoral supervisor of the w88 casino of English, member of the Foreign Language Major Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, a nationally renowned young and middle-aged English expert. As a professor, he always insists on teaching undergraduates on the front line, and as a doctoral supervisor, he guides5PhD students and5Master's students, shouldering scientific research tasks in applied linguistics, applied corpus linguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language teaching and other research directions, and undertaking the National Social Science Fund and the Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Project of the Ministry of Education, etc.11scientific research tasks, and his monograph "Research on Second Language Acquisition: Current Situation and Evidence" has won2005Second Prize for Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences of Jiangsu Province in 2016. His paper "The Transfer of Chinese Language Proficiency to English Writing: Cross-Linguistic Rationale and Empirical Evidence" won the Outstanding Paper Award at the 4th China International Symposium on English Teaching.

Scientific research is the foundation of teachers

Facing the catalog of Professor Wang Lifei’s scientific research achievements, the reporter saw the long catalog index. Professor Wang’s scientific research achievements can be described as fruitful. from2000New Year's Eve2007In the past seven years, Professor Wang published papers53Articles, includingCSSCICore journal articles35articles, published works9Part, translation21Book, textbook12This book (set), published and edited four volumes and three English-Chinese dictionaries. Professor Wang’s scientific research work has never left English teaching. The research fields of his papers and monographs cover college students’ speaking, listening, writing, translation teaching, second language learning, linguistic research methods and other aspects, and he has conducted in-depth research on this. His translation works cover sports, military, morality, music and art, nature and other categories. The index of this catalog reflects Professor Wang Lifei’s profound attainments in English linguistics.

When a reporter asked why he also undertook such a heavy scientific research task while completing teaching work, Professor Wang said, “Scientific research is the foundation of a professor. Scientific research is like a lonely pioneer, constantly moving forward and forward, waiting for you to come back. At first glance, I have unknowingly come a long way... My scientific research focuses on solving practical problems. My research objects are students and teaching. My ideal is to discover the rules and characteristics of Chinese students learning foreign languages. Scientific research has given wings to my teaching and enabled me to understand teaching and students better."

The first dean introduced through open recruitment

In interview,Wang LifeiThe professor told reporters that hefromAfter leaving the postdoctoral mobile station, he was the first dean introduced by the w88 casino through open recruitment,2005Year9Since he took charge of the deanship of the w88 casino of English in January, he has launched many aspects of work such as the discipline construction and teaching staff construction of the English w88 casino, making the appearance of the English w88 casino in a short period of time2A welcome change occurred mid-year.

In terms of discipline construction, the w88 casino of English has clarified its ideas, highlighted key points, and completed the college's "Eleventh Five-Year" discipline construction plan according to the w88 casino's "Eleventh Five-Year" development strategic plan, and clarified future work goals and priorities. In accordance with the college’s “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” development plan, the w88 casino of English has accelerated the pace of English discipline construction and organized and launched new majors--The first application process for business English undergraduate major in the country has been approved by the Ministry of Education and enrollment has started this year,Admitted students60name; organized and completed the demonstration and application for the undergraduate translation major, and successfully obtained approval from the Ministry of Education. The successful application of the new major provided a new growth point for the development of the English major, making w88 casino the only university in the country with all three English majors; in strengthening the new undergraduate major While applying for majors, the w88 casino of English seized the opportunity to actively carry out preparations for the application of English doctoral programs, and established an application team for this purpose. At the same time, a new master's degree program in English language and literature was added, and the research direction and training plan for master's students were adjusted and improved, thereby making the subject development direction of the w88 casino of English clearer.

In terms of scientific research work, the w88 casino of English has built a scientific research platform for teachers, integrated and established a new Business English Research Institute, etc.6The institute has formulated scientific research plans, organized and selected the first batch of academic leaders and young and middle-aged academic backbones of the college, clarified teaching and scientific research tasks, and organized and formulated relevant rules and regulations, including methods for selecting academic leaders, regulations on teachers’ scientific research awards, regulations on on-the-job doctoral studies for young and middle-aged teachers, and regulations on the management of overseas studies and further studies, etc. Organizational backbone teachingShiheDoctoral application for national projects,2In the past few years, we have won successively3National Social Science Fund project,5Item Humanities and Social Sciences Project of the Ministry of Education,2Item Ministry of Commerce Project,5Item Beijing City Project,10Multiple w88 casino-level projects, winning national-level quality courses1door, Beijing quality courses3Gate, high-quality teaching materials5Department, publishes monographs on linguistics, literature, translation, and cross-cultural studies20Departments, textbooks, translations and dictionaries60Multiple departments, inA&HCI、SSCI、CSSCIRecently published papers in core journals40articles, scientific research funding reaches one million yuan, making the English w88 casino among the advanced ranks of scientific research in the w88 casino.

In terms of teaching staff construction, the English College has also made great progress. Since2005Year9Since January, in accordance with the w88 casino’s “strengthening the w88 casino with talents” strategy and discipline construction plan, the college has carried out talent introduction and high-level talent training for in-service teachers, and has introduced a total of English Ph.D.15Names (including returned doctorate4name),2Over the years, one after another12Teachers on the job studying for a doctoral degree, selected7People go abroad for further study. In the past two years, the English College has greatly improved the level of the college's teaching team through introduction and training. Teaching teams for linguistics, British and American literature, business English, translation, and national culture have been successively established to make the characteristics of the English subject more distinctive and the competitiveness significantly enhanced.

In order to improve the college’s own development capabilities, the College of English has actively reformed the college entrance examination enrollment plan and selected outstanding students from foreign language schools across the country for “exemption” admission, which has achieved significant results.2007The admission score for the College Entrance Examination for English majors in the college has increased compared with previous years20points; the English major recruits international students from China, which is the first of its kind in the education of international students in the country and in w88 casino; the college has also established an international exchange center and actively carries out Sino-foreign cooperative education and training.

Dean Wang said that under the leadership of the w88 casino party committee, with the joint efforts of teachers in the w88 casino and the close cooperation of all departments of the w88 casino, the work of the English w88 casino has achieved great results in the past two years. When talking about the development of the w88 casino of English, Dean Wang believes that continuing to strengthen discipline construction is the top priority for the future development of the w88 casino of English.200834359_34609

(First published on2007Year12month30Daily w88 casino newspaper, subject to changes)