Shu Dingfang, Professor

Shu Dingfang, Ph.D., is currently Chair Professor at the the National Research Center for Foreign Languages Educational Materials (NRCFLEM,SISU) and Chair Professor at the Shanghai Centre for Research in English Language Education (SCRELE), Shanghai International Studies University, China. He is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Foreign Languages and co-editor of Language Teaching for Young Learners. His research interests include cognitive linguistics and foreign language education. He has published over 10 books and 200 articles in these areas, such as Foreign Language Teaching: theories, practices and methods (1996, 2008, 2018), Studies in Metaphor (2000), FLT in China: problems and suggested solutions (2004), Cognitive Semantics (2008), Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (2013), etc. He is also editor-in-chief of English textbooks for primary, junior and senior high schools in Shanghai since 2020.