working experience & courses taught

Working experience:

1982-1985  Teaching assistant in English Dept. at Henan Normal University, China 
1985-1993  Lecturer in English Dept. of Hebei University of Technology, China 
1993-1997  Associate professor in English Dept. at Hebei Uni. of Technology 
1997-2014  Professor in School of Foreign Languages at Tianjin University of Commerce, China

2014-          Professor in School of English Studies at Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China 
2005-2006  Visiting researcher in School of Language, Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of East Anglia, UK 
2006-2009  Researcher in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK

Courses taught:

Undergraduate courses: 
college English, comprehensive English, extensive reading in English, basic English writing, advanced English writing, general linguistics

Graduate courses: 
history of linguistics, systemic functional linguistics, critical discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, research methodology in linguistics.