Zhu Jingtao Email & Phone Number

www.jingtaozhu.comJingtao Zhu, PhD in Cognitive Science and Language (Cum Laude) from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, executive director of ClicAsia, Centre d'Estudis Orientals (Barcelona/Madrid). He graduated summa cum laude from Universidad de La Habana, Cuba in 2012 with a B.S. in Spanish Philology. He received his two Inter-university Master´s degrees in Training of teachers of Spanish as a foreign language from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat de Barcelona, and Cognitive Science and Language from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Actually he is a member of the board of directors of the Asociación de Chinos en España (Young Entrepreneur Section), and an advisory board member of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. He is also a full member of Chartered Institute of Linguists (MCIL CL, UK) since 2021. In addition, he has served several times as scientific expert for the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching.He has been a research fellow at the Department de Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura at the Universitat de Barcelona (FI fellow-Generalitat de Catalunya) and has been collaborated with the research group for the study of Linguistic Repertoire (GRERLI) at the Institut de Ciències de l´Educació (UB) from 2014-2016. At the same time, he was going to be a visiting researcher at Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (Université de Paris-Centre Nacional de la Recherche Scientifique) in France (postponed due to COVID-19) and visiting investigador at Churchill College (University of Cambridge). Currently he is a member of the Acquisition and Pathology Lab at the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (CLT/UAB) in Barcelona, where he has been involved in a number of international research and development projects sponsored by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España.He has published articles in the field of language teaching, assessment and acquisition (e.g. Cambridge University Press, Linguistic Analysis) and he is the author of the Manual for Teaching Spanish to Chinese speakers (Difusión, 2015) and the author of a research monograph on study of applied linguistics (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016). His current work sheds novel light on the early Chinese grammar acquisition using eye-tracking measures. He has been a teacher trainer and psycholinguist for the past seven years, and has given courses and talks in various universities in Spain, in different European countries, in Asia and the United States.

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