School of Foreign Languages have invited many scholars abroad to give lectures or teach courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

★On October 22^nd, 2014, Dr. Terrence Wiley, head of Center for Applied Linguistics, gave a lecture entitled The Past, Present and Future of Language Policy Research.

★On January 23^rd, 2015, Professor Robert Cavanagh from Curtin University gave a lecture entitled Measures with Meaning in the Human Sciences.

★On June 1^st, 2015, Professor Jiang Nan from the University of Maryland gave a lecture entitled Uniquely Non-native.

★On May 4^th, 2016, Professor Jonathan Lock Hart, member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Historical Society of Britain, oversea research fellow of the University of Cambridge, gave a lecture entitled History, Trauma and Literature.

★On June 8^th, 2016, Dr. Peter De Costa from the Michigan State University gave a lecture entitled An Author’s and Reviewer’s Perspective on Publishing in SSCI Journals.

★On June 29^th, 2016, Professor Thomas O. Beebee, head of Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature of the Pennsylvania State University, gave a lecture entitled What the World Thinks about Literature.

★From June 27^th to July 8^th, 2016, the second SEU-UT English Immersion Summer Camp was successfully held in Southeast University.

★In July, 2016. Ms. Laurie Knox, Ms. Kristi Maxwell and Mr. Thorsten Huth from the University of Tennessee taught three courses to undergraduate English majors

★On October 24^th, Dr. Gao Xuesong from the University of Hong Kong gave a lecture entitled Linguistic Instrumentalism and National Language Policy in Mainland China’s State Print Media Coverage of the Protecting Cantonese Movement.

★On November 7^th and November 9^th, 2016, Dr. David Johnson from the University of Iowa gave two lectures respectively entitled Language Policy for Bilingual Education and the Spread of English and Ethnography of Language Policy: Theory, Method, and Findings.

★On November 14^th, 2016, Dr. Miguel Pérez-Milans from University College London gave a lecture entitled Studying Mandarin Chinese in London Education: Language Desire and Learning Illusion in a Working-Class Secondary School.

Professor Jonathan Lock Hart

Dr. Peter De Costa

SEU-UT English Immersion Summer Camp

   Dr. David Johnson

Dr. Miguel Pérez-Milans