An Introduction to ERP Linguistics Lab

The ERP (event-related potential) linguistics lab, belonging to the College of Foreign Languages of Ocean University of China, was built in September 2013. It is equipped with ANT ERP data acquisition and processing system(in constructing), NeuroScan 4.5 ERP data processing system, E-prime programming and acquisition system and other advanced technologies, with which it becomes a high-level scientific research platform combining teaching, research, innovation and other functions. The ERP research and innovation team, which relies on this platform, boasts strong teaching staff and high research level. With active attitude toward academic research, reasonable title and age structures and good cooperative spirit, the members in the team have undertaken a number of national-rank and provincial-rank scientific research projects and aim to cultivate the reserve forces for the sustainable development of the discipline and more innovation talents for our country.

ERP is an advanced instrument for recording the brain waves when it processes certain event, for which it is called “the window for the observation on brain”. In language studies, it is mainly used to explore the brain’s cognitive neural mechanism for language processing. It can be applied to many fields, such as second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, cross-cultural communication, literature, aesthetics and language processing for monolinguals and bilinguals and so on, which are the academic interests of teachers, graduates and undergraduates in our university.

An Introduction to Editorial Office of Foreign Language Research in China

Editorial Office of Foreign Language Research in China was organized in September 2014. It is the issuer of Foreign Language Research in China, an academic journal of foreign language studies edited and published by the College of Foreign Languages of Ocean University of China and several colleges of foreign languages of other universities in China. The first issue of Foreign Language Research in China was published in 2014 by Publishing House of Ocean University of China. The journal generally contains five parts: Linguistic Theories and Their Application, National Literature and Culture, Translation Theories and Criticism, Language and Culture in International Business, as well as Foreign Language Education and Teaching. Each part consists of several columns. Specifically, under Linguistic Theories and Their Application, there are columns of second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and studies of linguistic philosophy, etc.; National Literature and Culture includes studies of English and American Literature, works of Haruki Mulakami, French Literature, South Korean Literature, as well as German Literature. Translation Theories and Criticism contains researches of translation of the Bible, literature classics, as well as different genres of works, etc.; Language and Culture in International Business comprises international business linguistics, translation studies and intercultural communication studies, etc.; and Foreign Language Education and Teaching incorporates columns of studies of teaching foreign language to foreign-language major students and non-foreign-language major students, etc. Funded by Ocean University of China, two issues of Foreign Language Research in China have been published by now.

An Introduction to Discipline Development Office

The Discipline Development Office, affiliated to the College of Foreign Languages of Ocean University of China, was built in September 2014. As an adviser, the management agency and the（executive）agency for the management in the process of discipline development, the office takes charge of the research on the discipline development strategy and planning of the College, project management on discipline development and the comprehensive performance evaluation on discipline development. At present, with its help, the College has completed the evaluation and acceptance on the key disciplines of Shandong Province, and on humanities & social science base of Shandong Province in the 12th Five-Year Plan, and the making of the 13th Five-Year Plan of the College. Also it played an important role in holding The 6th Annual Conference of China Education linguistics research Association and The 2nd National Business English Linguistics Conference in 2015.