Prof. Minjie Xing

Speech Title: Language for Specific Purposes Teaching in the UK: History, Current Developments, and Future Direction

University of Manchester, UK

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Minjie Xing is Professor of Chinese and Language Pedagogy at the University of Manchester and serves as Programme Director for Joint Honors Degrees in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. She is a National Teaching Fellow and Principal Fellow of Advance HE in the UK. Her research and teaching expertise spans Business Chinese, multimodal language learning, and the application of artificial intelligence in language education. She serves on the editorial and review boards of four ESCI-indexed journals and was honoured with the Reviewer of the Year Award for the 2024–2025 academic year by IGI Global.