Lecture Time: April 26, 2024 (Friday) 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Lecture Venue: Room 208, Chongyuan Building, School of Foreign Languages

Lecture Title: From Solitude to Solidarity — Sharing Feasible Paths for Research Development of Multilingual Teachers

Speaker: Associate Professor Xiuchuan Lu, Fudan University

Brief Introduction of the Lecture: This lecture starts from the personal research experience of a young Spanish teacher, analyzing and discussing how research in multilingual disciplines can break through the limitations of traditional fields and patterns, integrate and innovate across languages and disciplines, thereby broadening the research perspectives of multilingual disciplines, enriching research content, and deepening the academic and practical value of research outcomes.

Brief Introduction of Associate Professor Xiuchuan Lu: Xiuchuan Lu, Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor at the Department of Spanish, School of Foreign Languages, Fudan University. She is a Pujiang Talent in Shanghai, a visiting scholar at the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK, and a member of the innovative team for the construction of first-class disciplines at Fudan University, focusing on the development of multilingual abilities and the acquisition of second foreign languages. Her main research directions are applied linguistics and comparative linguistics. In recent years, she has published over twenty academic papers in Chinese, English, and Spanish, including several indexed in SSCI, A&HCI, and CSSCI, mainly covering topics such as Spanish second language acquisition, multilingual teaching, and teacher development. She has led and completed several important projects, including projects funded by the National Social Science Fund, the Language Association Center of the Ministry of Education, and the "Pujiang Talent" project in Shanghai. She has also published two monographs and translated two books.

All faculty and students are welcome to actively participate!