Congratulations! Faculty members of the School of Foreign Languages have been recognized with multiple awards at Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2026 award ceremony for teaching and research, held on September 9. The School received three Teaching & Education Awards and two Research Achievement Awards.

Teaching & Education Awards

Wang Pin — Second Prize(Associate Professor, Department of English)

A dedicated educator with a solid scholarly foundation, Wang Pin has always upheld the fundamental mission of moral education and has ranked among the top in student teaching evaluations year after year. His honors include the university's "Excellence in Teaching Award · Siyuan Chair." He believes in combining knowledge transfer with values education, guiding students to develop a deep sense of professional identity as the discipline undergoes transformation. As chair of the Department of English, he listens carefully to students' needs, provides sound academic guidance, and coordinates key talent-cultivation initiatives such as graduation projects and professional internships. His scholarly rigor and a teacher's warmth have earned him widespread respect and affection from students.

Wang Lin — Third Prize(Associate Professor, Department of Japanese)

Wang Lin has spent 28 years on the front line of Japanese language teaching, staying true to her original commitment to teaching and moral education. She has actively explored the integration of ideological-political education into the curriculum and driven AI-assisted foreign language teaching reform, leading and completing several teaching reform projects that have produced a series of outcomes. Under her devoted mentoring, her students have won numerous national-level foreign language competition awards, and she was named one of the university's Top Ten Class Advisors. In her roles as Party branch secretary and associate chair of the Japanese Department, she has worked to integrate Party building with academic work, contributing to the cultivation of outstanding foreign language talents with patriotic commitment, global vision, and professional expertise.

Zhang Xuezhen — Third Prize(Associate Professor, Center for Undergraduate Public English Teaching)

Zhang Xuezhen is committed to the deep integration of language teaching with humanities and values education, making skillful use of digital tools to create immersive classroom experiences. She has served as editor-in-chief of intercultural communication textbooks and has led multiple teaching research projects at various levels. As a course team leader, she coordinates the entire course reform process and plays an active mentoring role that helps young faculty grow together — a backbone of teaching, research, and team development.

Research Achievement Awards

Ding Hongwei — Second Prize(Professor, Department of English)

Ding Hongwei serves as chief expert of a National Social Science Fund major project on "Construction of a Corpus of People with Mental Disorders and Language Research for Brain Science and Artificial Intelligence," and has long devoted herself to research on speech prosody and speech-language-hearing science. Her award-winning study, *Speech Prosody in Mental Disorders*, previously earned the First Prize at the 17th Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award. The work responds innovatively to the critical global challenge of the lack of reliable biomarkers in mental health. Taking speech prosody as its point of entry, it systematically demonstrates the unique advantages and great potential of language data as biosocial markers for mental disorders. By integrating research on the neural mechanisms of auditory language processing and speech production, Ding proposes an interdisciplinary model that brings together language, cognition, and emotion, further revealing language as a window into mental health. Her theoretical framework has been adopted by several authoritative international interdisciplinary teams, offering new perspectives for clinical psychiatry and extending the frontiers of linguistics in the field of mental health.

Pang Shuangzi — Second Prize(Professor, Department of English)

Pang Shuangzi's research focuses on corpus studies and translation studies. In recent years, she has led three National Social Science Fund projects, published more than 30 papers in leading academic journals at home and abroad — several of which have been reprinted in full by the Renmin University of China Information Center for Social Sciences — and authored three monographs with the Commercial Press and other publishers. Her award-winning work, *Language Contact through Translation*, previously earned the First Prize at the 17th Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award. Focusing on explicitation and implicitation in English-Chinese literary translation, she conducts translation-feature research based on diachronic composite corpora, examining both the direct influence of English on translated Chinese and the indirect influence of the target language on original Chinese, as well as their interrelations and underlying mechanisms. The research reveals translation as a key site of language contact: influenced by translation-induced contact, original Chinese is gradually shifting from parataxis toward hypotaxis, and from divergence toward convergence with translated Chinese. The study offers fresh perspectives and new explanatory frameworks for third-code features, the theory of language contact through translation, and the history of language development.

Looking Ahead

Like peach and plum trees that need no words to draw a path beneath them, our faculty's dedication speaks for itself — in every hour devoted to the classroom, every moment of quiet scholarship. Looking ahead, the School of Foreign Languages will carry forward the spirit of educators, grounding its work in professional ethics and deepening the comprehensive reform of foreign language education. By fostering mutual reinforcement between teaching and academic innovation and building a high-caliber faculty, the School will contribute its full strength to the university's "Double First-Class" initiative and to the development of a foreign language discipline system with Chinese characteristics.