Zhen TIAN
Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor, Postdoctoral Co-Supervisor of Shanghai International Studies University (SISU). She is a full-time researcher of the National Research Institute for Foreign Language Teaching Materials (NRITM-foreign languages), a full-time researcher of the Shanghai Center for Research in English Language Education (SCRELE), a visiting scholar of Princeton University in 2016-2017, a Shuguang Scholar of Shanghai, an expert in external review of core journals such as Journal of Foreign Languages, Modern Foreign Languages, etc., an executive member of the China Cognitive Linguistics Committee, and a member of the International Academic Committee of Language, Culture and Thinking. Main research interests of Zhen TIAN are cognitive linguistics and foreign language teaching. She has published 6 monographs, edited or co-edited 6 textbooks and published more than 20 papers. She has presided the project of the National Excellent Distinguished Doctorates Special Fund, the National Social Science Foundation, the Humanities and Social Sciences Program of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (MOE), Shanghai Shuguang Program, and Shanghai High Peak Discipline Construction Program.
Academic experience:
2006-2009 PhD, English Language and Literature, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)
2009-2013 Lecture, School of International Education Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)
2013-2018 Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University
2016-2017 Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, Princeton University
2018-present Professor, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), Shanghai Center for Research in English Language Education (SCRELE)
2023-present Professor, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), National Research Institute for Foreign Language Teaching Materials (NRITM-foreign languages)
Research Projects:
2022 Shanghai Shuguang Program Project (22SG30): Research on Conceptual Network Modeling and Automatic Recognition of Constructs in the Context of Artificial Intelligence
2022 Academic Leadership and Curriculum System for Graduate Tutors (SISU Graduate School) Project: Research on Construct Extraction and Database Construction for Language Teaching
2021 Shanghai Tier-I Peak Discipline (Foreign Languages and Literature) Construction Project : Research on Constructive Teaching and Database Construction for Articulation of Academic Sections
2015 Natural Language Processing General Project of National Social Science Foundation of China (15CYY025): Research on Automatic Discriminative Modeling of Constructs
2013 Special Funds for Authors of National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations in Higher Education Institutions (2013018): Neurocognitive Mechanisms of English-Chinese Marked Constructs
2012 Project of Youth Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences Research, Ministry of Education (12YJC740095): An Empirical Comparative Study on the Interaction between Chinese and English Existential Constructions and Verb Semantics
Publications:
Research on New Developments in Cognitive Linguistics (2021)
Ten Lectures on Semantics (2020)
Language, Culture and Identity-Signs of Life (2020)
English Verb Phrases-A Series on English Learning Based on Cognitive Theory (2019)
An Empirical Study on the Interaction between Chinese-English Existential Constructions and Verb Semantics (2014)
Research Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (2013)
Textbook:
New Target College English Series (Second Edition): Long Reading 3 (2023)
Selective Compulsory Book 2 of High School English Textbook (SISU Version, 2021)
Selective Compulsory Study Book 4 of High School English Textbook (SISU Version, 2021)
Senior Secondary English Extended Reading Selective Compulsory 2 (2021)
Compulsory Textbook Book 1 of High School English Textbook (SISU Version, 2020)
Teaching Reference Materials for Compulsory Book 1 of English for General Senior Secondary Schools (2020)
Part of the papers:
Tian Zhen, Ke Zhangxuan, Wang Beilei. On the Development of the Representation and System of Chinese Culture in the Process of English Textbook Writing [J]. Foreign languages and their teaching, 2024, (06): 98-109.
Tian Zhen, Zhou Junzi. (2024). A Review of the Dynamics of Metaphor and Its Extension Issues[J]. Modern Foreign Languages, 2024, 47(03): 431–435.
Tian Zhen, Yu Jinming. International Frontier and Development Trend of Computational Constructed Grammar Research [J]. Modern Foreign Languages, 2024, (01): 126-136.
Tian Zhen, Mei Tian Xue. Eye-tracking of the contextual effect on metonymic processing in constructions[J]. Studies in Language, Translation and Cognition, 2024,(01): 111–123.
Tian Zhen, Peng Yajing. Research Progress of Computer-Assisted Language Learning in the Context of Artificial Intelligence(2011-2021)[J]. Foreign Languages, 2022,(03):53-60.
Duan Dan,Tian Zhen. Innovative Development and Trends in Constructive Grammar Research(2001-2020)[J]. Modern Foreign Languages,2022,45(05):721-731.
LIU Jingjing,TIAN Zhen. Language Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence[J]. Foreign Languages (Journal of Shanghai International Studies University),2020,43(05):126-128.
Tian Zhen,Chen Wei. Exploring Theoretical Innovation Based on Chinese Characteristics[J]. Foreign Languages(Journal of Shanghai International Studies University),2019,42(02):106-108.
Tian Zhen. Prospects of Construct Research:Construct, Psychology and Language Processing--Interview with Prof. Adele Goldberg[J]. Foreign Languages (Journal of Shanghai International Studies University), 2018,41(03):107-112.
Courses Offered:
Undergraduate Program:
Advanced English
English Grammar and Writing
English Audiovisual Speaking
Graduate Program:
Language and Thinking
Topical Studies in Constructive Grammar
