On August 31, 2021, James Lantolf, an internationally renowned linguistic expert, a leader in social and cultural theory, the director of the American Advanced Language Education and Research Center CALPER, and a professor at Pennsylvania State University, was officially hired as the distinguished professor of Beijing Language and Culture University's Center for the Cognitive Science of Language, as international team researchers, will carry out various forms of long-term academic cooperation with CCSL, including cooperative research, series of courses and other forms.
Professor Lantolf has always been maintaining academic exchanges with CCSL of Beijing Language and Culture University. On June 5 this year, Professor Lantolf was invited to deliver a keynote speech as a special guest at the "International Conference on Language Cognitive Science" hosted by CCSL. The early cooperation has further deepened the understanding between the two parties. Professor Lantolf left a good impression on the research results and academic influence of the talent introduction base and expressed high praise. The joining of Professor Lantolf this time is of great significance for the base to expand in-depth international cooperation and promote the development of disciplines. Both parties will use second language acquisition research as an entry point to further deepen cooperation and expand fields. The talent introduction base will try its best to create opportunities and conditions, actively give play to Professor Lantolf’s international influence and guiding role, further enhance the strength and competitiveness of the discipline, and continuously improve the level of discipline development, in order to build 100 world-class discipline innovation and talent introduction bases. diligent.
Introduction of Professor James Lantolf
James P. Lantolf. Distinguished Professor, Beijing Language and Culture University; Changjiang Schola in Applied Linguistics, Xi’an JiaoTong University (2017-2020), Greer Professor Emeritusin Language Acquisitionand Applied Linguisticsin the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. While on the faculty at Penn State he was Director of the Center for Language Acquisitionand Director of CALPER (Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research). He was president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (2005),and in 2016 he received the Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award from that association. He was co-editor of Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press) from 1993 to 1998 and is founding editor of Language and Sociocultural Theory (Equinox Press), established in 2013. His research focuses on sociocultural theory and second language development. He has published over 170 journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews. He is co-author of Sociocultural theory and the genesis of second language development (2006), Oxford University Press. His 2014 co-authored book, Sociocultural theory and the pedagogical imperative: Vygotskianpraxis and the L2 research/practice divide (RoutledgePress) received the Mildenberger Prize of the Modern Language Association of America. He has published several edited and co-edited volumes, including Vygotskian approaches to second language research (1994), Sociocultural theory and second language learning(2000), Sociocultural theory and the teaching of second languages(2008), and most recently,The Routledge handbook of sociocultural theory and second language development(2018).
