On April 14, Ms. Henriette Hendriks from Cambridge University was invited to give an academic lecture in the Meeting Room 139 of the CFL. Some students from Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin University of Technology, and the CFL of Nankai University attended the lecture.
Professor Zhang Wenzhong, one of the members of the ELT Advisory Board under the Ministry of Education and PhD supervisor of the English Department of the CFL, chaired the lecture.
The topic of Ms. Hendriks was “Marking discourse cohesion: a comparison of first and second language learners”. She took narrative discourse as an example to describe lively the similarities, differences and other academic issues in the process of marking known information and new information about the personal reference of children second language learner (in learning English, French, German, and Chinese) and adult second language learner (in learning English, French, and German).
Ms. Hendriks was patiently answered the questions proposed by the audience, which revealed her precise research approach, ability to think sensibly, and profound knowledge. After the interactive session, Professor Zhang Wenzhong summarized and commented the lecture and led the audience to consider how to further their own empirical study.
Ms. Hendriks was born in the Netherlands, and once studied from 1985 to 1986 in Nankai University as an exchange student from Leiden University. She is now the Director of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Department and one of the important members of EF Education Research Center under Cambridge University. Ms. Hendriks’ research interest is applied and psychological linguistics, especially the reciprocal action between language acquisition and cognition in the learning of Dutch, German, English, French, Chinese, and Polish etc.
