Name: LIANG Jingbi

Professional Title: Associate Professor

Work Unit: Department of Translation, Interpreting and International Communication

Research Interests: Second Language Writing, Communicative Language Teaching, Corpus-based Translation Teaching

Email: 200411188@oamail.gdufs.edu.cn

Educational Background:

1997-2001 Department of Translation and Interpreting, English Faculty, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (BA)

2001-2004 Department of Translation and Interpreting, English Faculty, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (MA)

2013 Visiting researcher to Lancaster University, Britain

2017 Visiting researcher to University of Essex, Britain

Work Experience:

2004-present English Faculty, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Courses Taught in Recent Three Years:

Intermediate Communicative English for Chinese Learners

Intermediate English Writing

English Writing for General Purpose

Translation 101

Research Projects:

1. Intermediate English Writing (The National First-Class Undergraduate Online Course, PI, 2023)

2. MOOC of "New Communicative English (Intermediate)" - Course Ideology and Politics in Nurturing Chinese Talents with a Global Vision (Ministry of Education’s Co-Project between Enterprises and Educational Institutes, PI, 2022)

3. Integration of Values into Communicative English Courses - Cultivating a Sense of National Identity among English Majors (Guangdong Province’s Undergraduate Higher Education Teaching Reform Project, PI, 2021)

4. Reform of Multimodal English Teaching Materials for "Promoting Learning through Writing" under the Compensation Hypothesis (Guangdong Province’s Undergraduate Higher Education Teaching Reform Project, PI，concluded in 2020)

5. “Learning-Centred” Digital English Writing Course (Guangdong Province’s Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform Research Project, PI, concluded in 2020)

6. Intermediate English Writing (Guangdong Province’s Online Open Course, 2^nd Co-I, 2017-)

7. Intermediate English Writing (Guangdong Province’s First-Class Undergraduate Online Course, 2^nd Co-I, 2020)

8. Write to Communicate, Write to Think: Innovation and Practice of Cross-Pacific English Writing Programme (Second Prize of Guangdong Teaching Achievement Award, 2^nd Co-I, 2019)

9. Participant in the National High-Quality Courses and National High-Quality Resource-Sharing Courses of "Communicative English" and "Intermediate English Writing"

10. “Textbook of English Creative Writing－Telling Your Chinese Stories”, (GDUFS’ Textbook Project, PI, 2021)

“Intermediate Communicative English for Chinese Learners” Teaching and Research Office Project (GDUFS’ Teaching and Research Office, PI, 2022)

Textbook Publications:

1. "Write to Learn: The Concept and Practice of the ‘Length Approach’ in English Writing" (Associate Editor, Science Press, September 2004)

2. "Coursebook of English Writing" (Associate Editor, Science Press, September 2008)

3. "Communicative English for Chinese Learners: Integrated Coursebook 1" (Editor, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2015)

4. "Communicative English for Chinese Learners: Writing Coursebook 2" (Chief Editor, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2017) (Sample Chapter: https://heep.unipus.cn/product/book.php?BookID=2803)

Teaching Awards:

1. “The Second and Third Prizes for Teaching”(2004-2023), “Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor”(2004-2023), "Top Ten Young Teachers" (2009), "Huiyan Outstanding Teaching Award" (2022), and "Outstanding Teacher" (2023)

2. "Competence-Oriented Task-Based Online Teaching: A Case Study of Intermediate Communicative English for Chinese Learners" (The First Prize for Guangdong’s Undergraduate Excellent Online Teaching Plans , 2020)

3. "Nurturing Chinese Talents with a Global Vision : A Case Study of Ideological and Political Education in the Course of Intermediate Communicative English for Chinese Learners" (The First Prize for Guangdong’s Undergraduate Excellent Ideological and Political Education Cases, 2021)

Instructor Awards:

1. Instructor Award for the Guangdong "Lingnan Cup" English Writing Competition (Provincial Grand Prize: Liu Yali, Provincial Second Prize: Liu Yuxiang, 2023; Provincial Third Prize: Feng Tianlin, Chen Ruitong)

2. Excellent Instructor Award for “Big Writing Event under One Topic” (National First Prize: Lin Benyi, 2023; National Second Prize: Tan Zhuodan)

3. Instructor Award for the "FLTRP Cup" National English Reading Contest (National Third Prize: Hu Mengxuan, 2022)

4. Instructor for the 10th National English Creative Writing Competition (National Second Prize: Tan Zhuodan; Finalist Awards: Wu Zhining, Xie Sisi, 2024)

5. Instructor Award for the First "Higher Education Press Cup" Short Video Competition of "Telling China’s Story in Foreign Languages" (Provincial Third Prize: Liu Yali, 2022)

6. Instructor Award for the 8th Guangdong "League Cup" Undergraduate English Writing Competition (Provincial First Prize: Li Xinxu, 2021)

7. Instructor Award for GDUFS "Challenge Cup" Student Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition (School Third Prize: Xie Yufei et al., 2023)

8. GDUFS Thesis Supervisor Award (Department of Translation and Interpreting: Liu Xingmu, Liu Yali, 2024; Shen Yining, Liang Qiling, 2023; Wu Peijian, 2020; Lei Ting, 2016)

Academic Membership

Member of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL); Member of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).

Online MOOC link:

（https://www.icourse163.org/course/GDUFS-1206115801?from=searchPage&outVendor=zw_mooc_pcssjg_）