Time:3:00-4:00 p.m., November 25, 2016

Venue:Room 5A607, School of Foreign Studies, SCAU

Speaker: Professor CharlesX. Li (Central Washington University, U. S. A.)

Biosketch：

Charles X. Li is a tenured full professor of Engish, advisor for the M.A. TESOL program, and founder as well as advisor of the Linguistics Minor program in the Department of English at Central Washington University, USA. Prior to joining CWU in 1996, he taught as a full-time tenure-track assistant professor of English at Adams State University, USA (1993-1996). He is also an honorary professor of English at Henan University, Chinasince 2002. He earned his M.A. in English Language and Literature at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (1987) and his Ph.D. in English Linguistics and Literature at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA (1995). His teaching and research interests include linguistics, ecolinguistics, TESOL, history of the English language, second language acquisition, and linguistic approaches to literature. He is editor and translator of several books and author of numerous articles on linguistics, stylistics, TESOL, and metrical studies. E-mail: Charles.Li@cwu.edu.