The School of Foreign Language Education (SOFLE) held its first sharing lecture on linguistic research given by Associate Professor Dong Xiaoyu in the Lecture Hall of the Foreign Language Building on September 21, 2023. As part of SOFLE’s series of lectures Reap Fruits from Spring Flowers, Live up to the Youth, the lecture was entitled Reflections on 2023 Advanced Workshop on Applied Linguistics Studies Hosted by the National Language Commission (2nd Session) and was hosted by Prof. Zhang Jin, Vice Dean of SOFLE, and streamed live simultaneously via Tencent Meeting.
Prof. Dong’s lecture covered three parts: introduction to the workshop, the content of the workshop and her reflections. 2023 Advanced Workshop on the Studies of Applied Linguistics Hosted by the National Language Commission (2nd Session) was sponsored by the Department of Language and Information Management of the Ministry of Education, China Center for Language Planning and Policy Studies of Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), and Institute of Linguistics of SISU. The workshop, taking New Development and Localization of Sociolinguistics as its theme, focused on cutting-edge theories, research methods and paradigms in various fields of sociolinguistics at home and abroad, such as ethnic sociolinguistics, cognitive sociolinguistics, sociolinguistics in globalization, sociolinguistics in critical discourse analysis, speech act analysis, variation sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. The workshop included keynote speech, lectures, panel discussion, literature reading and sharing sessions as its typical forms of discussion.
Finally, Prof. Dong stressed that the workshop has deepened the young scholars’ understanding of the Chinese language modernization, enhanced the sense of social and academic responsibility as language teachers and researchers, broadened the academic horizon, inspired the research ideas, clarified the research direction, and expanded the academic community as well.
Throughout the lecture, Prof. Dong shared the new theories, research methods in Sociolinguistics together with her reflections on the workshop vividly and passionately and greatly inspired the teachers and students who attended the lecture both on site and online. It would be of help to promote the academic literacy of faculties and postgraduate students of SOFLE.
