Wang Zhiru
WANG Zhiru, Professor of School of Foreign Languages, Hubei University.
She received her B.A in English at Hubei University in 1981 and M.A in Linguistics for English Language Teaching from Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages of Lancaster University, UK, in 1998. In over 30 years of teaching she has taught various courses such as Cninese Culture, Language Learning Principles and Strategies, Language Teaching Methdology, Course Design and Material Development, College English, etc. From 1995 to 1996, she taught Chinese at the University of Southern Queensland and Woolongong University, Australia. Her research interest is in second language acquisition, intercultural communication, online and offline blended learning, cross-cultural communication, etc. and has published more than 20 research papers. She authored four textbooks such as Introducing Chinese Culture in English (2017), Real Communication Practice Book (2010), New Development College English (2009), English Teaching Methodology (2004). Due to her excellence in teaching, she was awarded the title of Prestigious Teacher by the government of Hubei Province and the title of Model Teacher by the Ministry of Education of China. Professor Wang is the head of the course. She deliveres instructions of Unit 1 about Confucius and Unit 2 about Laozi.