虞怡达讲师
Name: Yu Yida (Linda)
Email: Linda_yyd@hotmail.com
Educational Background
Sep. 1999 - Jun. 2003 Bachelor of Arts (English)
Shanghai Normal University
Feb. 2001 -Jun. 2003 Executive Administration (Degree, 2nd Major)
Shanghai Normal University
Sep. 2003 –Jun.2006 Master of Arts (English Linguistics and Literature)
Shanghai Normal University
Working Experience ,Training and Award
Sep.2006- present The Department of Foreign Languages, Shanghai University
Courses: Basic English, English listening, cross-cultural communication, critical thinking skills, public speech
Jan.2008-Feb.2008 University of Leeds, UK
2008-present Working on the PMP programme with teaching staff from Leeds
Apr. 2009 Second Prize for the Teaching Contest in the Department of Foreign Languages, Shanghai University
2009-present coach for public speech and British parliamentary debate for college students
2008-present Trainer for BEC vantage and higher
2011 PETS oral test judge
Academic Research
Research orientation: Applied cognitive linguistics and teaching methodology, the teaching of cross-cultural communication in foreign language classroom.
Oct. 2007 The cognitive explanation of the semantic extension of particle "out". Journal of Yangzhou University. p176-179
2006-2008 Research Fundfrom Shanghai Municipal Education Commission for Selecting and Cultivating Excellent Young Teachers from Shanghai universities: The study on introducing conventional metaphorical expressions into foreign language classroom
Mar.2008. Metalude ---An interactive corpus for the learning of metaphorical expressions for The Third International Conference on FLT Methodology in China
Dec.2009. Vocabulary teaching within the framework of conceptual metaphor---textbook for "Basic English" as an example. Studies in Language and Culture [C]. Shanghai: Shanghai University Press
Dec. 2008. On the multi-dimensional interactive teaching model---"Basic English" as an example. Journal of Shanghai University. p37-39
Dec.2009. The ecological model of classroom teaching aided by Blackboard---"Basic English" as an example for the annual meeting of Foreign Language Educational Technology Association of Shanghai
Jan. 2011 Critical Thinking in Basic English Class. Studies in Language and Culture [C]. Shanghai: Shanghai University Press
June,2011 Metaphorical thinking and cross-culture communicative competence. Submitted to The 9th CAFIC (China Association for Intercultural Communication) International Conference
Publications
Jan.2008. Co-editor. Effective Listening for Intermediate Interpretation. Beijing: People's Education Press
Jun.2009. Co-editor. Literature Reading for Postgraduates. Shanghai: Fudan University Press
