A Study on Professional Development of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in Institutions of Higher Education in Western China

Yuhong Jiang, Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Cambridge, Professor, the supervisor of PhD candidates, MPhil and M.A. students, the Academic, Scientific and Technical Leader, and the Expert of Social Sciences in the Municipality, the Director of Foreign Language Education Research Institute, peer reviewer for papers of international academic journals and international conferences in the UK and US, panel judge of application for professional posts in universities, examiner of PhD dissertations, the member of professional associations of AILA, IATEFL, BERA, AERA, and China English Language Education Association. She is the winner of Grace and Thomas C. H. Chan Scholarships and Overseas Research Studentship Awards of the University of Cambridge. She has published 33 research papers in world famous peer-reviewed journals at home and abroad, 3 monographs, 10 Text books and 1 lexicon ( as editor-in-chief, associate editor-in-chief, and associate compiler) in best renowned publishing houses. Up to now, she has presided over 21 research projects, some of which were sponsored by National Social Sciences Research Foundation, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Foundation of Ministry of Education. Moreover, she has been invited to attend a number of national and international academic conferences and chair some sessions. She also holds teaching responsibilities for PhD and MPhil courses.