Name: YOU Changsong

Title: Associate Professor

Affiliation: College English Department, School of Foreign Languages and Literature

EMAIL: reeceyou@whu.edu.cn

Education:

Sept. 1980 – June 1984, BA, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature;

July 1995 – May 1996, Postgraduate Diploma, NIE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;

MA, PhD, Institute of Education Science, WHU


Ø Teaching and Research Areas

Courses taught:Sociolinguistics, College English, Readings in Chinese Culture, Readings in Western Culture, British Society and Culture, American Society and Culture, English Listening and Speaking, English for Postgraduates

Research areas:English Teaching Methodology, Language and Society, Language Policy


Ø Professional Positions

Associate Professor since June 1993;

MA supervisor since Sept. 2000;

Director, College English Dept., School of Foreign Languages and Literature (April 2013 – Dec. 2016);

Deputy Dean, School of Foreign Languages and Literature (Dec. 2016 – Nov. 2020).


Ø Awards

1. First Prize for Teaching Achievements in Colleges and Universities in Hubei Province, Feb. 2018;

2. Second Prize for Teaching Achievements in Colleges and Universities in Hubei Province, Oct. 2005;

3. First Prize for Teaching Achievements in Wuhan University, Jan. 2017;

4. Second Prize for Teaching Achievements in Wuhan University, May 2014;

5. Second Prize for Teaching Achievements in Wuhan University, Mar. 2003.


Ø Academic Exchange

1. July 1995 – May 1996, PGDELT, NIE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;

2. August – September 2006, Training Program in English Teaching Methodology, University of Nevada, USA;

3. November – December 2018, Training Program in English Language Teaching, Swansea University, UK.


Ø Recent Publications

1. College English Reading 4, Wuhan University Press, Aug. 2019;

2. New Integrated English for Postgraduates, Wuhan University Press, Aug. 2017;

3. New English Course Listening and Speaking 2, Tsinghua University Press, April 2017;

4. New English Course Listening and Speaking (Teacher’s Book) 2, Tsinghua University Press, April 2017;

5. Cross-cultural Communication and English Language Teaching, Wuhan University Press, May 2016.


Ø Teaching and Research Projects

1. “A Study on the Model and Method of College English Graded Teaching”, Provincial Education Reform Project, completed in 2006;

2. “A Research on the Professional Development of College English Teachers in the Information Age of Education”, Provincial Education Reform Project, completed in 2013;

3. “A Study on the Relationship between Language and Culture in College English Education”, Provincial Education Reform Project, completed in 2018;

4. “Approaching the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips”, Translation Project of the Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences, granted in 2021.


Links

Wuhan University