Yushan Zhao PhD
Lecturer
School of Translation Studies, Shandong University
E-mail:zhaoyushan@sdu.edu.cn
Tel:13792741530
Mailing Address:
School of Translation Studies
Shandong University at Weihai
NO.180 Wenhuaxi Road
Weihai City, Shandong Province, China
CO 264209
Office Hours:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Education:
PhD, Discourse Analysis and Children’s Language Developmeng, ZhejiangUniversity
MA, Linguistics and Second Language Teaching, Shandong University
BA, English as a Foreign Language, Shandong University at Weihai
BIO:
Yushan Zhao is a lecturer at Shandong University. She earned her Ph.D. in discourse analysis from Zhejiang University, her M.A. in linguistics and second language teaching from Shandong University, and her B.A. in English as a foreign languag from Shandong University at Weihai. Her research and teaching interests lie in children’s speech analysis and cognitive linguistics. She has published some essays on such famous linguistic journals in China as Foreign Language Teaching. Her essays have dealt with topics such as children’s reference production in spontaneous conversations, the performance of children with autism in conversations with topics and pictures as stimuli.
She has taught College English and Western Civilization at School of Translation Studies, Shandong University since 2003. The teaching philosophy she has appreciated so far is students as the center of English, which is widely welcomed by her students.
Selected Publications:
Books:.
Yushan Zhao. 2013. A Brief History of Western Civilisation. Jinan: Shandong University Press.
Selected Journal Articles and Essays:
Yushan Zhao. 2018. Book Review: The conversation frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16 (2): 537-543.
Yushan Zhao. 2012. How to Raise College Students’ Intercultural Awareness in College English Teaching: An Action Research. Foreign Language World 2: 27-34.
Courses Taught:
College English; Western Civilization
Expertise Areas: Conversation Analysis; Cognitive linguistics
