Dr Huizhong Shen
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About Dr Huizhong Shen
Language research is for me a process of researching an individual’s life in the cultural milieu. I’m fully for the Brumfitian view that Applied Linguistics is ‘the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language is a central issue’.
Dr. Huizhong Shen’s research expertise and scholarship lie in second/foreign language education, foreign language teacher education, ICT in language learning, cross-cultural issues in English language learning and researching Chinese English as an emerging variety of English.
Dr. Shen is Associate Dean, International, and Director of the China Education Centre at the Faculty of Education and Social Work. He is a widely experienced teacher at school and university level, having also taught at Fudan University in Shanghai in the 1980s. He has served as Senior Language Adviser for Education Queensland before he joined the University of Sydney. Dr. Shen has undertaken research and publications in language teacher education, teaching pedagogies, and ICT in language teaching and learning. He has also produced language-teaching materials in print and CD-ROM formats.
Dr. Shen has been commissioned recently by Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and Fudan University Press as lead writer to develop two new sets of English texts for College English learning in China. Currently Dr. Shen sits on the Editorial Board of University of Sydney Papers in TESOL and the Editorial Board of Intercultural Communication Series, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Dr. Shen is regularly consulted by educational and government bodies in Australia and China on language education policy and practice, and international cooperation.
A member of the TESOL Research Network within the Faculty of Education and Social Work, Dr. Shen has supervised a number of doctoral research students in EFL Teacher’s Perceptions and Pedagogy, Reading in an ICT-based Classroom, and Pragmatics and Pedagogy for College English Teaching and Learning. Dr. Shen is himself an active researcher in the disciplines of secondary languages education, TESOL and cultural differences. His current research interests are in second and foreign language pedagogies, foreign Language teacher education, ICT in language teaching and learning, cross-cultural differences in English language teaching and researching Chinese English as an emerging variety of English. His new book entitled: Postmodernism and Process Writing Pedagogy: A Cross-cultural Perspective (2008) will soon be in print (Fudan University Press).
Selected publications
Shen, H. (2008). Postmodernism and Process Writing Pedagogy: A Cross-cultural Perspective.
Shanghai: Fudan University Press.
Paltridge, B., Harbon, L., Hirsh, D., Phakiti, A., Shen, H., Stevenson, M., & Woodrow, L. (2008). Teaching Academic Writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Shen, H. (2008). Reconceptualizing Chinese English as an indigenized variety. In Q.F Wen & W.Z. Hu, (eds). ELT in China (5). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Shen, H. (2007). Pedagogies, practices and textbook writing: A typology. Chapter 4 in D.L. Qiu & J.G. Cai, (eds). The Exploration and Prospective of College English Textbook, (pp. 88-109). Shanghai: Fudan University Press.
Shen, H., & Cleverley, J. (2007). IELTSmart (Series – Academic & General)): Listening, Speaking,
Reading & Writing. Shenzhen: Haitian Publishing House.
Ji, P., & Shen, H. (2006). What’s missing in College English textbooks for effective teaching? A content analysis. Diversity for Excellence: Engaged Pedagogies. Singapore: Educational Research Association of Singapore.
Lim, K., & Shen, H. (2006). Integration of computers into an EFL reading classroom. ReCall, 18, 2, 212-229.
Shen, H. (2003). Embracing technology: Learning a foreign language in multimedia environments. Babel, 37, 3, 17-24.
Shen, H., & Zhong, Y. (2002). Where is the technology-induced pedagogy? Snapshots from two multimedia EFL classrooms. British Journal of Educational Technology, 33, 1, 39-52.
Shen, H. et al. (2001).The Language Market Stage A, B - Chinese. Brisbane: Goprint. (Nominated for best multimedia language courseware in Australia)