Virtual Lecture: The Application of Corpus in Language Teaching and Research: A Case Study of the Multilingual Platform of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China

Abstract: With regard to the establishment of the Multilingual Platform of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, the lecture aims to illustrate how corpus can best assist the teaching and research in foreign languages. We argue that with the technical advantages of corpus, researchers can explore how specific vocabulary and syntactic structures are used and what are the discourse features on the basis of large-scale corpus observation and relevant data statistics and analysis and visualize these identified trends and features. These research results can be directly applied to foreign language teaching and research, and realize the intellectualization, digitization and visualization of foreign language teaching and research.

Bios of speakers:

Hu Kaibao, professor of Shanghai International Studies University, distinguished professor of the national major talent program of the Ministry of education, and chief expert of major projects of the National Social Science Foundation. He is currently the dean of the Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications at Shanghai International Studies University, a member of the third National Postgraduate Education Steering Committee for translation majors, and a vice chairman of the Translation Theory and Translation Teaching Committee of China Translation Association. He is also the editor in chief of Routledge's Frontiers in applied linguistic series and Springer's Corpus and Intercultural Studies series, and the editorial board of academic journals such as China Foreign Languages and Journal of China’s Translators’ Association. In 2009, he won the Shanghai talent cultivation award. In 2014, he won the second prize of Shanghai Higher Education Excellent Achievement Award and was rated as one of the top ten figures of the year in Shanghai foreign language circles. In 2015, he won the third prize of the seventh excellent achievement award of scientific research in colleges and universities of China’s Ministry of Education. In 2020, he was selected as a distinguished professor in the major talent plan of the Ministry of education.

Li Xiaoqian is a research fellow at the Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications at Shanghai International Studies University. Her main research interests are corpus translation, image research, discourse studies, etc. She is the primary investigators of one youth project of National Social Science Foundation and one general project of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and was selected into the super postdoctoral incentive plan of Shanghai (2019).