The City University of Macau (CityU) is delighted to announce that Professor Yafu Gong, a leading English educator, has been invited to deliver a Doctor honoris causa Lecture with the theme of “Transdisciplinary English Education for School-Age Learners” this Friday (June 16th). The lecture will take place at 10:00 a.m. in the Conference Room, 3rd floor, Tai Fung Building, Taipa Campus. To those interested, please sign up via the QR code provided below. Additionally, CityU will be hosting the Ceremony for Conferment of Honorary Degree and Congregation 2022/2023 on this Saturday (June 17th), during which Chair Professor Jian-Kang Zhu, Academician Gao Wen, Lawyer Leonel Alberto Alves, and Professor Yafu Gong will be awarded their honorary doctorates.
Professor Yafu Gong is a research fellow at the China National Academy of Education Sciences and holds several prestigious positions, such as Director-General of the National Association of Foreign Language Education of the Chinese Society of Education, member of the Central Cultural and Educational Committee of the China Democratic League, and Director of the Foreign Language Center of the Basic Education Research Center at Sichuan Normal University, which is affiliated with the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education. Additionally, Professor Gong has served as a member of the 9th, 10th, and 11th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
Professor Yafu Gong has been dedicated to English teaching research and teacher training in basic education, and has undertaken national educational science projects, major national philosophical and social science research projects, and key projects of the Chinese Society of Education. He served as member of the National Teacher Education Curriculum Resources Expert Committee of the Ministry of Education, Director of the Foreign Language Department of the People’s Education Press, and Director of the Foreign Language Publishing, a subsidiary of People’s Education Press. He also took part in the compiling the National English Curriculum Standards (1993 and 2001 versions), and current Compulsory Education English Curriculum Standards.
He has published several monographs, including Task-Based Language Teaching and Reconceptualizing English Education: A Multi-goal Approach to English Curriculum Design for School-age Learners, as well as hundreds of publications on English education, teaching materials, and audio-visual programs. His research areas include second language acquisition, English curriculum design, and teacher education. In recent years, he has been devoted to how task-based language teaching can promote students’ holistic development and has published a variety of books on this topic.
