Introduction to Mr. Xingyong Hu

     Mr. Xingyong Hu has extensive experience and expertise in the field of education. He has many titles, including the Executive Member of the Foreign Language Association of Zhejiang Province. Mr. Hu is also a former associate professor in the English Department of Jiaxing College. He has written a number of books about language teaching and learning, including titles such as: ‘50 Problems of English Grammar’ and ‘The Pedagogical Grammar of English’ published by Shanghai Educational Press in 1983 and 1987 respectively. Other titles include ‘A Guide to the Use of Semantically-Related English Prepositions’ published by East China Normal University Press in 1989, and ‘A Concise Dictionary of Colloquial Idioms of Everyday English’ published by Tianjing People’s Press 1992. Mr. Hu has also published many articles in a variety of educational journals, totaling in excess of one million words. All these publications advocate a teaching method that combines communicative and functional approaches in teaching English as a foreign language. Mr Hu’s dedication to educational research and the development of educational philosophy has earned him a highly respected reputation in this field.

    Mr Hu graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Shanghai Fudan University. Since then he has made an enormous contribution to the development of the contemporary philosophy of teaching and school management that is adopted by this school. He has done so by through dedication to the principles and practices of Marxist philosophy, by maintaining an in-depth knowledge of contemporary teaching methods from both home and abroad, and by drawing on the wisdom of all staff members of the school.