International PhD Forum on Linguistics held

On May 6^th and 7^th 2017, the International PhD Forum on Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics was held on the North Campus. The forum consisted of sessions such as keynote speeches, group presentations and experts’ reviews, which drew attention from home and abroad and attracted over 40 doctoral students and experts from a wide range of universities in this field to participate.

Since 2004, our university’s Research Center of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics has organized PhD Forums several times, aimed at setting up platforms for PhD students of linguistics to conduct academic exchanges, offering a channel of communication, broadening students’ studies horizons and pointing out the way for their academic research work. Starting in 2013, this PhD Forum went international, and has gained a decisive position and influence in this field.

Professor MacWhinney was delivering a speech concerning second language acquisition

In the Experts’ Review Session, several PhD students thoroughly introduced the projects they are currently working on, after which experts gave a lot of patient, detailed and professional instructions focusing on research methods, statistics’ analyses and many other aspects.

Prominent attendees were: LIU Jianda, Vice President; CHEN Linhan, Vice President; LU Jingguang, Professor from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); Brian MacWhinney, Professor from Carnegie Mellon University, and Wu Fuyun, Professor from Shanghai Jiaotong University.