Professor Dr. Xia Zhao currently holds a professorship at the School of Foreign Languages, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. Previously, she served as a visiting scholar at the School of English Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, from 2015 to 2019.

She holds council memberpositions in several esteemed organizations including the Chinese Contrastive Discourse Analysis Research Association, the National Cognitive Neurolinguistics Society, the Jiangsu Provincial Association of Foreign Language Studies, the Zhenjiang Social Science Federation, and the Zhenjiang Pearl S. Buck Research Association.

Furthermore, Professor Zhao serves as an expert evaluator for the National Social Science Fund and as a reviewer for the Ministry of Education's Degree and Graduate Education Development Center.Independently, she has led over ten research projects, including two projects funded by the Ministry of Education in Humanities and Social Sciences, three projects on philosophy and social sciences research in Jiangsu universities, one major project in humanities and social sciences at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, and assistance for an outstanding academic monograph. She has also overseen the development of two high-quality courses, Advanced English  and Cognitive Linguistics, at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, in addition to participating in various undergraduate and graduate teaching reform projects.

She has authored two monograph and has contributed to over 40 academic papers in internationally recognized journals such as Frontiers in Psychology (indexed in SSCI) and prestigious Chinese journals (indexed in CSSCI) including Foreign Languages, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Chinese Foreign Language, Jiangxi Social Sciences, Electronic Education Research, and Journal of Soochow University, among others. Additionally, she actively participates as a reviewer for esteemed international journals like Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (indexed in SSCI) and the international preprint platform Qeios.

                                                    Systemicfunctional linguistics

Cognitive Linguistics

Corpus Linguistics

Philosophy of language,

Cross-culture Communication

EDUCATION

June 2013        PhD .in English Language & Literature, Soochow University

June 2002       M.A. in English Language & Literature, SoochowUniversity

June 1999        B.A. in English Education, Nanjing Normal University

Teaching Courses: Systemiclinguistics

Cognitive linguistics

Appliedlinguistics

Generallinguistics

Teaching Theories of Modern English

Cross-culture Communication

AdvancedEnglish