Lianzhen He

Lianzhen He is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Zhejiang University. Her main research interests are language testing, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. She earned her Master’s degree from the University of Birmingham (1992) and her PhD degree in language testing from Guangdong Foreign Studies University, China (1998). She was a senior visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004, Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol in 2012, and Local Chair of the 2008 Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) held at Zhejiang University. She has been a keynote speaker at several international conferences. Lianzhen is the Dean of the School of International Studies, the Director of the Research Institute of Applied Linguistics, the Co-Director of the Zhejiang– Bristol Joint Research Institute of Language Assessment, and the Deputy Director of the National Advisory Board for College Foreign Language Teaching of the Ministry of Education since 2006. Her publications include articles on language assessment research appearing in Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly, and major journals in China.